Image guided surgery: New technology for surgery of soft tissue and bone sarcomas

Aim Providing the surgical oncologist with a new means of performing safe and radical sarcoma surgery with the help of image guidance technology. Method Two patients with pelvic sarcomas were operated upon with the help of an intra-operative navigation system. The technology of image guided surgery is described in one patient with a retroperitoneal sarcoma invading the bony pelvis and another patient with a chondrosarcoma of the iliac crest. Results We show that this new procedure enables optimal radical surgical resection with minimal treatment related morbidity or loss of function. Conclusion Image guided surgery is a new technical tool in sarcoma surgery.