The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2006;88:1285-1293.
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Survival of Total Knee Replacement with a Megaprosthesis After Bone Tumor Resection

David Biau, MD1, Florent Faure, MD1, Sandrine Katsahian, MD2, Cécile Jeanrot, MD3, Bernard Tomeno, MD1 and Philippe Anract, MD1

1 Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Service de chirurgie orthopédique et traumatologique, Hôpital Cochin, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75679 Paris CEDEX 14, France. E-mail address for D. Biau: djmbiau{at}yahoo.fr
2 Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Service de statistique et informatique médicale, Hôpital Saint-Louis, 1 Avenue Claude-Vellefaux, 75475 Paris CEDEX 10, France
3 Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Service de chirurgie orthopédique et traumatologique, Hôpital Bichat, 46 rue Henri-Huchard, 75018 Paris, France

Investigation performed at Cochin Teaching Hospital, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris V University, Paris, France

The authors did not receive grants or outside funding in support of their research for or preparation of this manuscript. They did not receive payments or other benefits or a commitment or agreement to provide such benefits from a commercial entity. No commercial entity paid or directed, or agreed to pay or direct, any benefits to any research fund, foundation, educational institution, or other charitable or nonprofit organization with which the authors are affiliated or associated.

Background: The use of a megaprosthesis has become the method of choice for reconstruction after bone tumor resection at the knee. However, the long-term survival of megaprostheses is poor. In this study, we sought to identify factors that were associated with implant failure and amenable to interventions designed to improve implant survival.

Methods: A retrospective review of the charts of ninety-one patients who had undergone resection of a tumor of the knee followed by reconstruction with a custom-made megaprosthesis was performed. The distal part of the femur was resected in fifty-six patients and the proximal part of the tibia, in thirty-five patients. The reconstruction was performed with an allograft-prosthesis composite in thirty-three patients and with metal or plastic sleeves in fifty-eight patients. Reconstruction of the extensor mechanism was necessary in all thirty-five patients with a tibial tumor.

Results: The median duration of follow-up was sixty-two months. The extensor mechanism was significantly less likely to rupture when partial continuity had been preserved at the time of the resection. Intra-axial laxity (an arc of motion of >5° in the frontal plane) was significantly more common when the prosthesis had an antirotation pin than when it did not have an antirotation pin (p = 0.0023). There was mechanical failure of ten allograft-prosthesis composites and ten sleeve reconstructions. Thirty-six patients had removal of at least one component of the prosthesis. When revision due to local tumor recurrence was excluded, the median duration of prosthetic survival was 130 months following the distal femoral resections and 117 months following the proximal tibial resections. The median duration of survival was 117 months for the allograft-prosthesis composites and 138 months for the sleeve reconstructions. Body weight and activity level were independent predictors of early revision.

Conclusions: The long-term survival of the knee megaprostheses in this study was poor. Mechanical failure was multifactorial and the leading cause of revision. Use of allograft-prosthesis composites and use of bushings or an antirotation pin appeared to have no mechanical benefits. We recommend that weight control programs and advice about adapting their activity level be offered to patients preoperatively.

Level of Evidence: Prognostic Level II. See Instructions to Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.


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