Long-term results of the Spanish Protocol SO-95 for the treatment of non-metastatic high-grade osteosarcoma of the extremities in children.

Introduction: The long-term results of the Spanish Study Protocol SEOP-SO-95 for treatment of localised osteosarcoma of the extremities in children were evaluated.

Patients And Methods: One hundred consecutive patients under 18 years of age from 22 institutions were enrolled from January 1995 to December 2000. Immunohistochemical expression of p53, HER/erbB-2 and P-glycoprotein were retrospectively studied in 27 patients.

[Focal myositis: report of a case in pediatric age and review of the literature].

Introduction And Clinical Case: We present the case of a 13 years old boy with a year-old history of a painful tumour on the external and distal third of the right thigh. The imaging tests suggested a soft tissue tumour but the muscle biopsy revealed the typical findings of focal myositis. Focal myositis is a benign inflammatory pseudotumour of the skeletal muscle recognized as a distinct clinicopathological entity, but there have been descriptions of the cases initially diagnosed as focal myositis that have latter behaved as evident polymyositis.

[Preoperative and postoperative chemotherapy of osteogenic sarcoma of the limbs in children].

Background: A preoperative and postoperative chemotherapy regimen was applied to nonmetastatic osteosarcoma of the extremities in patients under 16 years of age to prevent the progress to metastatic disease and reduce the volume of the primary tumor in order to assess a conservative surgery.

Patients And Methods: A modified T-10 chemotherapy regimen was used before surgery, including high dose methotrexate, vincristine, bleomycin, cyclophosphamide and dactinomycin. After surgery patients with a grade of tumor necrosis > 90% received the same regimen up to 45 weeks of treatment.

Distal tibial triplane fractures: long-term follow-up.

The cases of 35 patients in whom a triplane fracture had been treated at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital were reviewed. The diagnosis of biplane and triplane fracture can now be made by standard radiograph. However, plain radiographs alone did not accurately demonstrate the configuration of the fracture, and computed tomography must be performed.

Traumatic hip dislocation with incomplete reduction due to soft-tissue interposition in a 4-year-old boy.

The case of a traumatic dislocation of the left hip in a 4-year-old boy is presented. After an initial attempt at reduction under general anesthesia, a permanent deformity in the flexion of the hip remained, and there was radiographic evidence of a nonconcentric reduction. Computed tomography (CT) showed interposition in the posterior part of the joint.