Musculoskeletal Cancer Surgery Treatment of Sarcomas and Allied Diseases
by Martin M. Malawer and Paul H. Sugarbaker
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001

This is the most current surgical text describing and illustrating:

• step-by-step descriptions of surgical techniques for the management of bone and soft-tissue tumors of the extremities
• shoulder and pelvic girdle sarcomas
• new, sophisticated, multimodality procedures for truncal and abdominal sarcomas

Many of the procedures described in this text were developed by the authors, Drs. Malawer and Sugarbaker, who have a combined surgical experience of over 50 years. This text has over 400 color illustrations and schematic drawings, in addition to imaging studies and full color intraoperative and clinical photographs.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Ch. 1: Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas: epidemiology, radiology, pathology and fundamentals of surgical treatment Ch. 2: Biopsy of musculoskeletal tumors Tumors Ch. 3: The role of chemotherapy in the treatment of bone and soft-tissue sarcomas Ch. 4: Isolated-limb perfusion in the treatment of advanced soft-tissue sarcomas Ch. 5: The role of radiation therapy in the treatment of bone and soft-tissue sarcomas Ch. 6: The biology and role of cryosurgery in the treatment of bone tumors Ch. 7: Management of abdominopelvic sarcoma Ch. 8: Management of truncal sarcoma Ch. 9: Overview of resections around the shoulder girdle: anatomy, surgical considerations and classification Ch. 10: Overview of pelvic resections: surgical considerations and classification Ch. 11: Treatment of metastatic bone disease Ch. 12: Buttockectomy Ch. 13: Adductor muscle group excision Ch. 14: Quadriceps muscle group excision Ch. 15: Resection of the posterior compartment of the thigh Ch. 16: Resections in the popliteal fossa and the posterior compartments of the leg Ch. 17: Forequarter amputation Ch. 18: Above-elbow and below-elbow amputations Ch. 19: Anterior flap hemipelvectomy Ch. 20: Posterior flap hemipelvectomy Ch. 21: Hip disarticulation Ch. 22: Above-knee amputation Ch. 23: Below-knee amputation Ch. 24: Phantom limb pain Ch. 25: Review of endoprosthetic reconstruction in limb-sparing surgery Ch. 26: Pelvic resections (internal hemipelvectomies) Ch. 27: Sacrectomy Ch. 28: Periacetabular resections Ch. 29: Proximal and total femur resection with endoprosthetic reconstruction Ch. 30: Distal femoral resection with endoprosthetic reconstruction Ch. 31: Proximal tibia resection with endoprosthetic reconstruction Ch. 32: Fibular resection Ch. 33: Proximal humerus resection. The Tikhoff-Linberg procedure and its modifications Ch. 34: Scapulectomy Ch. 35: Pain management following limb-sparing surgery Ch. 36: Rehabilitation following limb-sparing Surgery Ch. App A: Appendix A - Abdominoinguinal incision for the resection of pelvic tumors Ch. App B: Appendix B - Canine osteosarcoma