Chondrosarcoma of the Chest Wall: A Single Institution Review of 50 Cases.

Introduction: Chondrosarcoma (CS) is most common primary osseous tumor of the chest wall. The aim of this study was to report results from surgical procedures and evaluate clinical factors predicting survival of patients with chest wall CSs treated in a single tertiary sarcoma center.

Materials And Methods: Fifty patients with primary CS located in the ribs and sternum were included.

Adjuvant arteriovenous fistula as means of rescue for infrapopliteal venous bypass with poor runoff.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the outcome of infrapopliteal bypass when an adjuvant arteriovenous (AV) fistula was reconstructed as means of rescue as a result of poor runoff. The design was a retrospective multicenter case-control study.

Methods: Seventy-seven infrapopliteal vein bypasses required an adjuvant AV fistula among 1813 patients operated on for critical leg ischemia in 3 vascular centers between 1996 and 2003.