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What constraints do you use for a non-weight bearing bone when treating a patient with sarcoma?

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Radiation Oncology · The Ohio State University - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

The only long bone that is truly not weight bearing is the fibula. (This is why ENTs can harvest fibula for mandible reconstruction and not reconstruct the fibula.)

All other long bones are weight bearing under at least some circumstances. Femur and tibia are obviously WB with ambulation. However, t...

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