Sarkome des gastrointestinaltraktes

✍ Scribed by H. -J. Klomp; C. Zornig

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 466 KB
• Volume: 375
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1435-2451
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00187445

✦ Synopsis

From 1970From -1988

15 patients were operated on gastrointestinal sarcomas. Four more patients with this diagnosis had to be excluded after histological reclassification. A resection with curative intention was possible in 10 cases. Three patients initially had distant metastases, in 6 patients they appeared postoperatively. Regarding prognosis the TNMG-system proved to be useful only concerning lymph nodes. Eight patients died because of tumor progression, four have no evidence of disease 2 0 -9 7 months postoperatively. One patient with liver metastases has a complete remission 32 months after chemotherapy. We found a 5-year-survival rate of 28%. Radical tumor resection and lymphadenectomy is recommended, distant metastases should be treated by chemotherapy.