Establishing a Collaborative Orthoplastic Approach for the Management of Primary Musculoskeletal Neoplasms: An 8-year Case Series.

Orthoplastic surgery is a multidisciplinary approach that is well-studied for extremity trauma, but not for musculoskeletal oncologic reconstruction. Here, the authors describe the application of a collaborative orthoplastic approach for the management of primary musculoskeletal neoplasms and evaluate its impact. The collaboration protocol, implemented in July 2019, comprises specific checkpoints of interdisciplinary co-management, which span the pre-, intra-, and postoperative treatment period. This involves direct communication between attending surgeons and their respective clinical teams. Patients who underwent resection of a primary musculoskeletal neoplasm between March 2014 and April 2022 were retrospectively categorized into conventional or collaboration groups. Of the 136 total patients, there were 63.2% (n = 86) conventional and 36.8% (n = 50) collaboration; 31.6% (n = 43) had reconstruction and 68.4% (n = 93) did not. Compared with the conventional group, the collaboration group had significantly higher rates of diabetes (18% versus 7%,

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