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KMID : 0613319950010020154
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Journal of the Korean Bone and Joint Tumor Soceity
1995 Volume.1 No. 2 p.154 ~ p.163
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Limb Salvage in the Treatment of the Upper Extremity Bone Tumors
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Hahn Soo-Bong
Shin Kyoo-Ho
Kim Bum-Soo
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Abstract
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With the development of anticancer chemotherapy and improved radiographic imaging studies, limb salvage operation became possible in the treatment of malignant and aggressive benign tumors. High grade sarcomas of the shoulder or the upper extremity can be surgically treated with a forequarter amputation, shoulder disarticulation or limb salvage surgery such as Tikhoff-Linberg procedure, segmental resection and replacement with endoprosthesis, segmental resection and replantation, or segmental resection and free vascularized bone graft. Among them the limb salvage surgery showed not only preservation of the remained upper extremity but also the excellent functional results. When comparing amputation and limb salvage operation while performing anticancer chemotherapy in both cases, 5 year survival rate, local recurrence, and distant metastasis did not show much difference. We studied 13 cases of limb salvage for the malignant and aggressive benign bone tumor of the upper extremity from March 1986 to December 1993 at Severance hospital. The summarized results were as follows.
1. There were 21 cases of malignant bone tumors and 5 cases of benign aggressive ones.
2. Of the 26 cases of malignant and benign aggressive bone tumors, limb salvage procedures such
as Tikhoff-Linberg operation(8 cases), endoprosthetic replacement(2 cases),
segmental resection and replantation(2 cases), and segmental resection and free vascularized fibular graft(1 case) were done in 13 cases.
3. In 13 patient on whom the limb salvage procedure was performed, there were 3 osteosarcomas, 4 chondrosarcomas, 3 giant cell tumors, I Ewing´s sarcoma, 1 leiomyosarcoma and I chondroblastoma.
4. In 13 patients, there was no local recurrence nor distant metastasis except one who had a segmental resection of the entire humerus part including glenoid and then postoperative anticancer chemotherapy for the treatment of the Ewing´s sarcoma of the entire shaft of the humerus with pathological fracture. Local recurrence occurred 2 years and 6 months postoperatively in this Ewing´s sarcoma patient, so forequarter amputation was performed and the irradiation and the anticancer chemontherapy were performed, but multiple bony metastasis developed and died of the disease 22 months after local recurrence.
5. The patients were followed-up for 1 year to 7 years and 5 months(average 4 years 5 months).
6. In 8 cases in which Tikhoff-Linberg procedure was performed, the function of the hand was almost normal.
7. Segmental resection and endoprosthetic replacement was performed in 2 cases, and the function
of the remained upper extremity was good with no evidence of aseptic loosening or nerve palsy.
8. In 1 case of segmental resection and free vascularized fibular graft for the patient of the chon
drosarcoma in the humerus, the function of the shoulder, elbow and hand was nearly normal.
9. In 1 case of leiomyosarcoma which involved both forearm muscles and bone near wrist joint,
segmental resection and replantation was performed, and the patient has useful hand function.
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KEYWORD
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Bone tumors, upper extremity, limb salvage
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