Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, 30-32 Ngan Shing Street, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
KC Wong (黃國全) FRCSEd(Ortho)
SM Kumta (古明達) MS(Ortho), PhD
KW Cheung (張堅穎) FRCSEd(Ortho)
KH Chiu (趙國慶) FRCSEd
LF Tse (謝龍峰) FRCSEd(Ortho)
Lady Pao Children's Cancer Centre, Department of Paediatrics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 30-32 Ngan Shing Street, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
MK Shing (成明光) MRCP, FHKAM(Paed)
CK Li (李志光) MD, FHKAM(Paed)
Correspondence to: Dr KC Wong
Received September 3, 2009
Surgical management of paediatric bone sarcoma is challenging. Effective chemotherapy and advances in surgical techniques make limb sparing surgery possible and offers adequate disease control comparable to the results obtained by amputations. With advances in design, material technology and surgical techniques, modern implanted tumor prostheses are more durable, less short term complications and can achieve good limbs function. This study is to review the experience of using prostheses in limb sparing surgery for 35 patients with paediatric bone sarcoma managed at one of quaternary referral centers in Hong Kong.