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Old 03-29-2008, 04:44 PM
jlaack jlaack is offline
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Location: Madison, Wi
Re: HELP - My best friend has osteosarcoma

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Regarding the X-rays, have you ever tried to 'photo-shop' them?
No, that didn't even cross my mind. Anyhow, I erased my personal information that I know isn't allowed on this site and posted the xray of our third revision in my gallery. My dogs tumor was initially maybe 1-1 1/2" in diameter (I'd have to dig to find the exact measurements) but as you can see they had to remove a substaintial amount of the radius to get the clean margins. While this view doesn't show the implant the clearest the gap is actually filled by a piece of the ulna because the procedure we had was an ulnar transplant, which removed a piece of healthy bone from the ulna and replaced the cancerous bone on the radius. The entire plate holds it all together while the fractures we created through this procedure are healing.
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