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Today, thanks to more precise histological classifications and more detailed surgical staging, conservative operations of bone tumors are ever more frequent. Consequently, there is a growing need to reconstruct longer and larger portions of skeletal segments. Resected bone tissue can be restored by various techniques:
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Through the use of prostheses which, however, are contraindicated for benign tumors or in young patients
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Through the use of donor transplants which, however, can create problems of histocompatibility, delays in consolidation, infection, and serious fractures
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Through the use of autografts (the most frequently used method), which, however, produce a weakening in the limb at the donor site, increase the risk of infection at the reconstruction site, lengthen surgical times, and, by their very nature limit bone stock availability.
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Ghera, S., Manili, M., Astolfi, M., Stopponi, M., Santori, F.S. (1991). Reconstruction of Bone Defects. In: Langlais, F., Tomeno, B. (eds) Limb Salvage. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75879-9_23
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