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Tunisie Medicale [La]. 1996; 74 (10): 425-31
em Francês
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RESUMO
Progress of neoadjuvant chemotherapy has trasformed prognosis of squelettal malignant tumor in infants. This has led to a great improvement in limb sparing surgery and in disease-free survival. The authors report their experience of limb salvage about their 14 first cases. The nature of tumor is osteosarcoma in 7 cases and ewing sarcoma in the other 7 cases. This review allows some conslusions: 1/ necesity of multidisciplinary cooperation in management of such patients. 2/ the worst prognosis of Ewing sarcoma. 3/ inter relation between tumor sensibility to chemotherapy and survival of patients. 4/ fiability of autograft in intercalary reconstruction and good fonctionnal result of knee reconstruction with massive prothesis