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- Title
Functional recovery in osteosarcoma in infant.
- Authors
Mita, Vladimir; Mitu, Daniela; Dobre, Elena
- Abstract
Osteosarcoma, or osteogenic sarcoma, is a type of bone cancer, the most common malignant bone tumour that occurs when osteoblasts turn into cancerous cells. These cancer cells continue to divide and multiply, forming a tumour. Tumours usually develop in younger, growing cells, in the bone section that grows during childhood. During bone remodelling, osteoblastic cells disfavour or resorb bone tissue. Osteosarcoma usually affects patients up to 20 years of age, especially among adolescent men. Most often the knee region is affected - 70% of cases (both in the femur and the tibia). Humerus is the third bone, with a frequency of 15%, especially at the upper extremity. Osteosarcoma is the most common of primitive bone tumours. The diagnosis is based on the front and profile radiography and the histological examination of the tumour after biopsy. The treatment of osteosarcoma usually involves chemotherapy and surgical ablation of the tumour. Treatment can only be done after setting up a plan to which contributes the surgeon, the oncologist and the anatomo-pathologist specialized in bone tumours. One of the most important parameters of treating this condition is medical recovery. The patient has to undergo complex physio-kinetotherapy programs under the guidance of an over-specialized medical team. Objectives and means are created on certain personalized principles for each patient who will achieve the progress of functional recovery.
- Subjects
OSTEOSARCOMA in children; RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Oncolog-Hematolog, 2017, Issue 39, p61
- ISSN
2066-8716
- Publication type
Article