Multiple soft tissue sarcomas
✍ Scribed by Tamás Tornóczky; Erika Kövér
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 60 KB
- Volume
- 104
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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Sarcomas have been diagnosed from ancient times, but the term sarcoma was used for benign as well as malignant tumors until the middle 1800s. The treatment for soft tissue sarcomas was surgery for 2000 years. In the 1970s, multimodality therapy and the TNM system for staging were introduced.
Of the 98 soft-tissue sarcomas treated between 1973-1978, 12 were retroperitoneal in origin. Fifty percent underwent one to three previous surgical procedures. All patients were operated on. In 75% (nine out of 12), the tumor was completely resected. The operative mortality for total tumor excision