Tetrapartition of the Achilles Tendon After Extensive Muscular Resection in a Lower Leg Synovial Sarcoma

Abstract

The problem of a severe case of synovial sarcoma of the lower leg, in a young caucasian girl requires a difficult treatment option. Despite the usual decision to amputate, a never described surgical technique, involving the tetra partition of the Achilles tendon (associated with multiple tenodesis after radical excision of the tumor) was used, allowing for a better quality of survival than the one that would have resulted from amputation.