Significance of surgical margin on the prognosis of patients with Ewing's sarcoma: A report from the Cooperative Ewing's Sarcoma Study
✍ Scribed by Toshifumi Ozaki; Axel Hillmann; Christiane Hoffmann; Christian Rübe; Sebastian Blasius; Jürgen Dunst; Herbert Jürgens; Winfried Winkelmann
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 917 KB
- Volume
- 78
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
BACKGROUND.
There is little information reg,arding an adequate surgical margin for local control of Ewing's sarcoma.
METHODS.
Two hundred and forty-four patients (PTS) with Ewing's sarcoma who were registered in the Cooperative Ewing's Sarcoma Studies underwent surgical treatment. Ninety-four PTS underwent definirive surgery (surgery alone), 131 PTS received postoperative irradiation, and 19 PTS received preoperative irradiation. The surgical margins were distributed as follows: radical, 29 PTS; wide, 148 PTS; marginal, 39 PTS; and intralesional, 28 PTS. The impact of the surgical margin on the treatment outcome of PTS was analyzed statistically.
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