Dung Tran Trung

Dr, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Publications

• Case Reports
  Limb preservation for osteosarcoma of femoral condylar: a clinical case of total knee replacement with microsurgical anterolateral thigh flap transfe
  Author(s): Dung Tran Trung*, Son Tran Thiet, Chien Vu Hong, Tung Pham Son and Sang Nguyen Tran Quang
  
  Background: Osteosarcoma is a high malignancy, early metastasis, and often leading to disability or limb amputation. Today, advances in science, technics, and materials, especially in joint replacement and reconstructive surgery with free flap transfer, open up hope for cancer patients in general, and bone cancer in particular about the preservation of limbs. Case report: A 23-year-old woman with sarcoma of the right distal femur was undergone tumor resection and cement replacement one year ago. This time the patient was admitted to the hospital for a painful swollen right knee. She was diagnosed with recurrent femoral osteosarcoma. Additional wide resection of the tumor along with total knee replacement and pedicled medial gastrocnemius muscle flap for covering soft tissue defect was done. Two weeks after this operation, the muscle flap was n.. Read More»