Paediatric surgical oncology: 4—The management of soft tissue sarcomas in children
✍ Scribed by D.A. Lloyd; Richard D. Spicer
- Book ID
- 117569267
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 327 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0748-7983
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## Background: Soft tissue sarcomas of the hand and foot present unique management challenges. the purpose of the current study study was to determine oncologic outcome, particularly with respect to factors affecting local recurrence, distant recurrence, and disease-specific survival. ## Methods:
Seventy-four adult patients with localized soft tissue sarcomas were treated with radiation therapy following surgery between 1965 and 1988. Fiftythree were treated after the first excision of their tumor with 6 (1 1.3%) local recurrences. Twenty-one received radiation after excision of recurrent di