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Image guided surgery: new technology for surgery of soft tissue and bone sarcomas
K Reijnders1, M H Coppes, A L J van Hulzen
1Department of Surgical Oncology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands.
Aim:
Providing the surgical oncologist with a new means of performing safe and radical sarcoma surgery with the help of image guidance technology.
Method:
Two patients with pelvic sarcomas were operated upon with the help of an intra-operative navigation system. The technology of image guided surgery is described in one patient with a retroperitoneal sarcoma invading the bony pelvis and another patient with a chondrosarcoma of the iliac crest.
Results:
We show that this new procedure enables optimal radical surgical resection with minimal treatment related morbidity or loss of function.
Conclusion:
Image guided surgery is a new technical tool in sarcoma surgery.
