The Role of the Vascular Surgeon in Orthopedic Surgery of Musculoskeletal Tumors

Condition(s) studied

Study summary

Very large musculoskeletal tumors frequently involve vascular structures. Literature data show that spinal surgery and orthopedic surgery are the specialist branches that most frequently require intraoperative vascular surgical assistance, with 33.8% and 26.4% of requests, respectively6.

In these cases, the surgical assistance of the vascular surgeon allows the safe removal of the mass, the possible repair of vessels damaged during cleavage and isolation of the mass, the ligation or complete reconstruction of the involved vascular segment and contributes to reducing intraoperative and postoperative complications7.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Number of vascular issues during every procedure — From the first patient entrolled up to the 70th patient, up to 3 years
  Number of major and minor vascular complications are collected during every procedure

Trial sites (1)

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