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- Title
Primary Ewing's sarcoma of the skull: radical resection and immediate cranioplasty after chemotherapy. A technical note.
- Authors
Castle, Maria; Rivero, Mónica; Marquez, Javier
- Abstract
Purpose: The current standard treatment of Ewing's sarcoma is chemotherapy followed by surgery, making an immediate cranial reconstruction in a one-step surgical procedure possible. Methods: We describe the technique used to repair a cranial defect after the resection of a primary Ewing's sarcoma of the skull in a one-step surgical procedure. Results: Bone repair with a custom-made cranioplasty immediately after resection of a primary Ewing's sarcoma of the skull avoids deformities and late complications associated with reconstructive surgery after radiotherapy and not interfere with radiotherapy and neither with follow-up. Conclusion: A one-step surgical procedure after chemotherapy for primary Ewing's sarcoma of the skull could be safer, less aggressive and more radical; avoiding deformities and late complications.
- Subjects
EWING'S sarcoma; OSTEOSARCOMA in children; COMPUTED tomography; CANCER chemotherapy; CANCER treatment
- Publication
Child's Nervous System, 2013, Vol 29, Issue 2, p303
- ISSN
0256-7040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00381-012-1974-7