Piero Picci • Marco Manfrini
Nicola Fabbri • Marco Gambarotti
Daniel Vanel
Editors

2014

The Rizzoli Case Archive

The Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute has a proud and dynamic history, with several very famous orthopedic surgeons over the past 120 years. Dr. Mario Campanacci was especially concerned with the diagnosis and therapy of bone and soft tissue tumors, particularly the malignant bone tumors, two of which are very common and often lethal to children, namely osteosarcoma and Ewing’s sarcoma. Beginning in the early 1970s, he pioneered the use of chemotherapy in Europe for these two tumors. He organized a team of surgeons and oncologists, who helped make an amazing reversal for most of these unfortunate patients dying of lung metastases within 2 years, to the majority being cured.