A hub for oncological orthopaedics and other pathologies that can only be treated in specialist centres outside the island and, in some cases, abroad. The agreement between the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Sicilian Region and the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute of Bologna has been renewed for ten years with this main objective.
Desmoid fibromatosis is a benign tumour but it grows aggressively in the tissues generating large masses that cause severe pain, compression of internal organs and difficulty in moving.
Today, chemotherapy is used to stop the growth of the tumour. However, the mass and the problems it causes remain. If it is treated surgically, it has a very high probability of recurrence.
"When we received the video in which she runs on the beach, it was inevitable to superimpose the image to the one before the surgery: her back had one of the most severe deformities I have ever seen" said Alessandro Gasbarrini, director of Oncological and Degenerative Spinal Surgery at the Rizzoli Orthopaedics Institute in Bologna, who operated on V.B. with his team.
The new steering committee of the Italian Sarcoma Group, a non-profit association involved in sarcoma research, has been appointed. The director of the Osteo-oncology, bone and soft tissue sarcomas and innovative therapies Unit at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Toni Ibrahim, has been appointed vice-president of the association.
A new hydrogel has been created thanks to a scientific collaboration between the BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and the Rizzoli Orthopaedics Institute. It is a double-layer hydrogel that mimics the characteristics of articular cartilage and allows to restore its natural properties in areas where the tissue has degenerated.
The In Silico World project officially started on January 28th, 2021, with an online kick-off meeting involving all 14 partner institutions that form the international consortium. The project is coordinated by the University of Bologna and funded within the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme by the European Union.
The Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute expands, thanks to 5mln700k€ worth of interventions:: a completely renovated floor (housing all the outpatient clinics of the Oncology Area, the Centre for Rare Diseases, Rheumatology, the pre-admission outpatient clinics and the new ward of Osteoncology, Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas and Innovative Therapies) and a four-story newly constructed building, called "Palazzina", set between the historic headquarters of San Michele in Bosco, the modern hospital building and the hill on which the Institute stands.
The happy ending is on his bike, where the story binding him to Bologna began. P.G., 40 year old, is a two-wheelers fan. He has an X-ray showing a scapula injury. At first it seems benign, then the cold shower: osteosarcoma, a rare and aggressive bone tumor.
The Italian reference centre is the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, where P.G. is visited by Giuseppe Bianchi, MD of the Orthopedic Oncologic Clinic, directed by Professor Davide Donati.
He could not grasp objects or fasten buttons. 16 year-old F.'s right arm could not work, having grown deformed after a bad fracture in the pediatric age: at 7, he broke his elbow due to a trauma, the growth cartilage was compromised and developed anarchically, so that the arm rotated progressively, reaching a deviation of 60 degrees. The deformity of the elbow also became a serious aesthetic handicap, difficult to accept with teenage.
For the first time in the world, the ankle of a 9-year-old girl suffering from a very rare form of bone sarcoma was reconstructed with homoplastic bone and an extensible nail at the Regina Margherita Children's Hospital in Turin, by a team of orthopaedic surgeons from the Città della Salute Hospital in Turin and the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna. Thanks to the surgery, the little patient will be able to walk again. The surgical procedure was performed by a team of orthopaedic surgeons coordinated by Dr.
