01/28/2026
15 year follow up! I am extremely fortunate to have patients follow with me for so may years. Its incredibly fulfilling to watch them grow up and age gracefully and beat their disease! Forever grateful that they placed all their trust in me to do their complex surgeries and save their limbs and help save their lives! This lovely patient had a huge secondary Chondrosarcoma coming from her scapula. An extremely rare location. We removed the cancer and scapula with a limb saving resection and reconstructed it with a total scapula prostheis. The prosthesis remains in place without loosening providing her with a stable shoulder and good hand and elbow function. It certainly beats a forequarter amputation and in my opinion a flail shoulder if removed and just left hanging. She is doing great. I rember her case so well as she traveled from Ohio and toward the end of her surgery the hospital caught on fire. We had ti remain in the room with her intubated for a couple of hours until the fire was controlled and was safe to leave. I have a vivid memory of her remaining safely intubated and bandaged and us congreg*ting in the corner of room with surgical masks on as smoked filled the room.
