Limb Salvage and Amputation
A 55-year-old patient presents with a large high-grade soft tissue sarcoma of the shoulder girdle. MRI demonstrates tumor encasement of the brachial plexus and axillary vessels. Despite neoadjuvant chemotherapy, the tumor remains intimately associated with the neurovascular bundle. The tumor is deemed unresectable with limb-sparing surgery. Regarding forequarter amputation:
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Forequarter amputation involves removal of the entire upper extremity including the scapula and late...
The anterior (Berger) approach allows early control of the subclavian vessels; the incision runs fro...
The Tikhoff-Linberg procedure is an alternative name for forequarter amputation; brachial plexus inv...
The Tikhoff-Linberg procedure is a limb-sparing alternative that involves resection of the scapula, ...
Posterior flap-based techniques preserve trapezius and latissimus dorsi to cover the chest wall defe...
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