Outcomes of noninvasive expandable endoprostheses for malignant bone tumors in skeletally immature patients: Can dummy-prosthesis be a good surgical alternative?

Objectives: In the two-stage lengthening approach with expandable prostheses, a functional motor is not placed at index surgery, but instead a placeholder (dummy) with the same dimensions as the motor is placed. In this study, it was planned to investigate the effect of using dummy in index surgery [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]