Functional outcome of limb‐salvage surgery with shoulder abduction brace for bone tumors around the shoulders

Abstract

Satisfactory functional outcomes can be obtained by limb-salvage surgery for bone tumor around the shoulder. Postoperatively shoulder crutches with shoulder abduction brace are encouraged as the aid of reconstruction of shoulder joint function.

Functional outcomes after reverse shoulder megaprosthesis following resection of malignant bone tumor in the proximal humerus: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…After screening title and abstract, 36 studies were eligible for full-text screening. Of these 36 studies, 10 were excluded for wrong population (an anatomical endoprosthesis was used instead of a reverse megaprosthesis 4 , 9 , 22 , 34 , 35 , 48 , 54 , 58 , 59 , 64 ), 7 studies were excluded for wrong intervention (surgical technique that used extracorporeal irradiated bone autograft, 15 , 16 , 66 a specific soft-tissue reconstruction, 1 or a constrained reverse prosthesis was implanted 2 , 12 , 38 ), 6 studies were excluded for wrong outcomes (3 studies did not report functional outcomes, 25 , 56 , 60 1 did not clearly report functional outcomes, 23 and 2 only reported MSTS 8 , 65 ), and 1 study was excluded because of a wrong design (review 10 ). Of 3 studies, no full text was available.…”