3rd Symposium on Limb Salvage
Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress
Orlando, Florida, USA
October 2-5, 1985

Produced by The Department of Orthopaedics
University of Florida, College of Medicine
Gainesville, Florida

Supported by the American Orthopaedic Association, The Orthopaedic Research and Education Founnation and the Bristol-Myers/Zimmer Orthopaedic Symposium

William F. Enneking, Symposium Chair

This was the third symposium following those held in Rochester, Minnesota and Vienna, Austria. The symposium was divided into seven consecutive one half day panels:

I: Fixation for Prosthetic Implants after Tumor Resection
Moderator – E. Y. S. Chao, U. S. A.

II: Functional Results of Reconstruction for Periacetabulaqr Pelvic Resections Requiring Sacrifice of the Hip Joint
Moderator - M. Campanacci, Italy

III: The Functional Results of Modular and Customized Prosthetic Devices after Resection Involving a Joint
Moderator – R. Kotz, Austria

IV: Adjuvant Therapy for Local Tumor Control Before and After Resections
Moderator - F.R. Eilber, U.S.A.

V: Functional Results following Resection of Tumors about the Knee
Moderator - D. J. Pritchard, U.S. A.

VI: Effectiveness of Methyl Methacrylate as a Physical Adjuvant in Local Tumor Control
Moderator – H. G. Willert, West Germany

VII: Short Presentations of Innovative Techniques
Moderator – D. S. Springfield, U. S. A.

Each panel, after an opening statement by the moderator, featured presentations by eight to ten participants, extensive discussion, and a closing statement by the moderator.

There were sixty six participants representing eleven countries: Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Great Britain, Italy Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, U.S. A. and U.S.S.R.. In addition there were fifty four auditiors, who participated in the vigorous discussions, representing another six countries: Australia, Czechoslovakia, Hong Kong, Norway, Singapore and South Africa.

In all there were 130 attendes from seventeen countries and six continents.The generosity of the supporting organizations defrayed the expenses of the administration costs as well as the travel and housing costs of all those in attendance.

A unique experience of the prog ram was the clinical presentation of three patients who represented the three most commonly used methods of management of tumors requiring sacrifice of the knee joint. Presented were an adolescent with a radical above knee amputation, a beautiful model with wide resection and prosthetic reconstruction and a professional tennis player with wide resection and autograft arthrodesis.The patients were questioned concerning their functional capacities ,limitations, life style and satisfaction. A fifteen year follow-up of the same three patients was presented at the ISOLOS meeting in Cairns, Australia in 1999, including a demonstration of tennis by the professional tennis player and the son of the surgeon who had presented the model in the 1985 meeting.

The proceedings of the meeting were published as Enneking, W. F. (Ed): Limb Salvage in Musculoskeletal Oncology, Churchill Livingston, New York, 1987