| dc.description.abstract | The thigh is a common seat for tumours. Many histopathological types can arise there.
Management challenges begin from the clinical diagnosis, to the surgery and ultimately the oncological
therapy be it medical or radiation based.
Objective: To review the thigh tumours prospectively managed by the authors over a 12 year
period.
Design: A 12 year prospective observational study.
Setting: Ward 6D of the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. An Orthopaedic Unit.
Patients and Methods: Forty one patients admitted to Ward 6D with thigh tumours between 1st
October 1999 and 30th September 2011 and treated by the authors in consecutive and prospective
sequence are analysed.
Results: Forty one patients with thigh tumours treated prospectively over the 12 year period.
Conclusion: Twenty three histopathological varieties of tumours occured in the thigh and their
diagnosis and management encompased incisional biopsy, excisional biopsy, curretage and bone
grafting, amputation and hind quarter disarticlation. Adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy were
administered. Distant metastases necesitated specialised surgical procedures. | en |
