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Figure 4

From: Clinical outcomes of frozen autograft reconstruction for the treatment of primary bone sarcoma in adolescents and young adults

Figure 4

Free freezing procedure. The bone tumor is excised en bloc with an adequate margin. After curettage inside the bone specimen and removal of the surrounding soft tissue, the bone specimen was immersed and frozen for 20 min in liquid nitrogen. After thawing, the devitalized bone was fixed to the residual healthy bone on the original site with double locking plates.

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