[Surgical procedures for bone neoplasms in children]

The treatment of 40 patients with bone tumors have been presented. The primary tumors were located in the following sites: femur (14), tibia (8), fibula (4), humerus (4), scapula (1), clavicle (2), pelvis (5), hand (1). Investigated group were: osteosarcoma (18), Ewing's sarcoma (14), chondrosarcoma (2), fibrosarcoma (1), synovial sarcoma (1), chondroblastoma (4). In the most frequent malignant bone tumors, osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma, unified management was adapted. The treatment was initiated with multidrug chemotherapy and followed by surgery or radiotherapy (Ewing's sarcoma) of the primary site. Surgery was performed in 30 cases: 19 mutilating operations because of the broad local invasion, 11 conservative surgical procedures (limb -- salvage operations). Satisfactory oncological and functional effect can be achieved after limb-salvage surgical procedures in the cases of localized, especially semimalignant bone tumors.