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Table 2 Successful modality

From: Experience with periprosthetic infection after limb salvage surgery for patients with osteosarcoma

Types

N (%)

Systemic antibiotics

2 (3.8)

Debridement and irrigation

5 (9.4)

Bone-cement spacer placement

8 (15.2)

2nd prosthesis revision

25 (47.2)

Amputation

9 (16.9)

Bone transposition

1 (1.9)

Combined prosthetic revision with cement

3 (5.6)

Total

53 (100)