Expandable Total Humeral Replacement in a Child with Osteosarcoma

Table 2

Literature summary for expandable total humerus replacements.

Authors	Year	Implants	Surviving patients	Failures	Failure modes (n)
Lavy and Briggs [27]	1992	3	3	3	1 (2); 4 (1)
Unwin and Walker [19]	1996	7	NA	1	4 (1)
Ayoub et al.	1999	6	2	0	0
Eckardt et al. [11]	2000	5	NA	NA	NA
Young et al.	2011	1	1	0
Natarajan et al.	2011	2	2	1	5 (1)
Puri, Gulia	2012	2	1	1	3 (1)

Failure modes: 1: soft tissue; 2: aseptic loosening; 3: structural; 4: infection; 5: disease recurrence. One patient had a forequarter amputation for pain unrelated to the prosthesis.