AIM: Providing the surgical oncologist with a new means of performing safe and radical sarcoma surgery with the help of image guidance technology. METHOD: Two patients with pelvic sarcomas were operated upon with the help of an intra-operative navigation system. The technology of image guided surgery is described in one patient with a retroperitoneal sarcoma invading the bony pelvis and another patient with a chondrosarcoma of the iliac crest. RESULTS: We show that this new procedure enables optimal radical surgical resection with minimal treatment related morbidity or loss of function. CONCLUSION: Image guided surgery is a new technical tool in sarcoma surgery.
AIM: Providing the surgical oncologist with a new means of performing safe and radical sarcoma surgery with the help of image guidance technology. METHOD: Two patients with pelvic sarcomas were operated upon with the help of an intra-operative navigation system. The technology of image guided surgery is described in one patient with a retroperitoneal sarcoma invading the bony pelvis and another patient with a chondrosarcoma of the iliac crest. RESULTS: We show that this new procedure enables optimal radical surgical resection with minimal treatment related morbidity or loss of function. CONCLUSION: Image guided surgery is a new technical tool in sarcoma surgery.