Revue de chirurgie orthopédique et réparatrice de l'appareil moteur
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Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot · Jan 1981
Case Reports[Radiation-induced sarcoma of the sixth cervical vertebra (author's transl)].
The authors report the case of a patient who suffered a sarcoma of the sixth cervical vertebra eleven years after a malpighian epithelioma of the pharynx had been treated and healed by local excision and radiotherapy. A radiation-induced sarcoma caused a tetraplegia. Laminectomy and plate fixation resulted in some recovery but the patient died three months later.
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Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot · Jan 1981
[Autotransfusion with acute hemodilution in the surgical treatment of scoliosis (author's transl)].
With the goal to reduce the number and the volume of homologous blood transfusions during surgical treatment of scoliosis and spine deformities, the authors have studied the results of 50 cases treated with immediate acute haemodilutional autotransfusion. In 40 per cent of the case neither per nor post operative homologous blood transfusion was necessary. In addition they have seen a surprising result such as a significant lowering of absolute blood loss during surgery compared to a similar series treated without haemodilutional autotransfusion. Physiopathological principles, precise technique used and limitation of the method are described.