Published online Apr 23, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.4055/jkoa.1982.17.4.589
Surgical Treatment of Metastatic Bone Tumors
Abstract
Metastatic bone tumors can lead to development of pathological fractures which may cause incessant pain. Hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria may develop secondary to skeletal metastasis and recumbency, leading to death from cardiac and renal sequeale. The proper surgical treatments of the metastatic bone tumor offer many advantages in relief of pain, simplifying nursing care, restoring resonable mobility and prevent complications.
The authors reviewed 24 cases of metastatic bone tumors which received surgical treatment at Severance Hospital from January 1976 to March 1982.
The results were obtained as follows:
1. Twenty four among three hundred patients with metastatic bone tumors were treated surgically.
2. There was no sexual preference and 66.7% were observed in the age of 51 to 70 group.
3. The most common site of operation was the femur.
4. The methods of operation were as follows:
Resectionoflesion.....................5
Replacement with prosthesis..........3
Open reduction and internal..........10
Spinal fusion..........................2
Laminectomy............................4
5. All cases had received various types of ancillary treatment: radiation in 8 cases, 131I radioactive isotope in 1 case, chemotherapy in 2 cases, hormone therapy in 1 case, radiation and chemotherapy in 3 cases and conservative pain control in 9 cases.
6. Among the 15 followed cases, nine survived more than 6 months and 3 cases longer than 1 year after surgery.
The pain was relieved markedly in twenty-three patients, and ambulated well with brace support.
