Quality of resection margin with patient specific instrument for bone tumor resection.

Robin Evrard^1,2,3, Thomas Schubert^1,2,3, Laurent Paul⁴, Pierre-Louis Docquier^1,2,3

¹Secteur des Sciences de la Santé, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Neuro Musculo Skeletal Lab (NMSK), Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Mounier 53, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium.

²Service d'orthopédie et de traumatologie de l'appareil locomoteur, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate 10, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium.

³Institut Roi Albert II, cancérologie et hématologie, cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.

⁴3D-Side, André Dumont, 5, 1435 Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Patient Specific Instruments (PSI) is currently a proven technique for bone tumor resection. In a previous publication, we analyzed the quality of margin resection of pelvic sarcoma resections with the use of PSI (by pathologic evaluation of the margins). In this new study, we compare preoperative resection planning and actual resection margins by MRI analysis of the resection specimen…

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