Background: Malignant bone tumors of the lower extremity are more frequently found in children and adolescents than in adults. Modern treatment regimens led to high limb salvage rates and offer the ...

Osteosarcoma is rare, yet it’s the most common form of bone cancer among children. It is an aggressive cancer, and removal of the diseased bone must be done quickly. The most common location for ...

It’s a surgery so unusual that when 10-year-old Haley Stol’s mother first heard about rotationplasty, she simply called it “freaky.” Haley had bone cancer in her right leg and needed an above-the-knee ...

For children with bone cancer below the knee, a revolutionary procedure removes the tumor while also allowing for better mobility as children grow up. Osteosarcoma is a rare cancer of the bones, ...

When Amelia Eldred, an active 7-year-old in England, needed her leg amputated to treat bone cancer, doctors performed an unusual surgery: They removed the middle part of her leg and then reattached ...

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The objective of this retrospective study was to evaluate the long-term outcome as well as health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients who underwent rotationplasty for treatment of a malignant ...