Hernández GEH, Estévez LLM, Arredonde RR, Fernández GG, Arranz PJC

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ABSTRACT

Background: Ewing’s sarcoma is a highly malignant neoplasm which mainly affects children and teenagers. It represents a 9 % of bone tumors. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery combined or alone are the available treatments. Objective: to familiarize residents with a less practiced surgical technique of forequarter amputation used in an Ewing’s sarcoma case. Case presentation: a nine year old scholar female, complaining of volume increasing of the left shoulder and the proximal third of the ipsilateral arm of twelve weeks duration. The patient presented a histopathology diagnostic of Ewing’s sarcoma with deltoid muscle infiltration. The early treatment included chemotherapy for ten weeks and afterwards a forequarter amputation was practiced by a posterior approach through Littlewood technique. Conclusions: Littlewood forequarter amputation is a procedure which allows increasing the survival, mainly in oncologic patients, that is why to be familiarized with the technique is necessary in the formation of orthopedics and traumatology specialists for good medical practice.

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