Contemporary role of amputation for patients with extremity soft tissue sarcoma.
Conti, Lorenzo Buriro, Fahmina Baia, Marco Pasquali, Sandro Miceli, Rosalba De Rosa, Laura Gronchi, Alessandro Fiore, Marco
Conti, Lorenzo
Buriro, Fahmina
Baia, Marco
Pasquali, Sandro
Miceli, Rosalba
De Rosa, Laura
Gronchi, Alessandro
Fiore, Marco
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2022-12-09
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Introduction: limb-sparing surgery is the mainstream treatment for primary extremity soft tissue sarcoma (ESTS) at referral centers, following advances in surgical reconstructions and multimodal management. However, amputation is still needed in selected patients and has not yet been described for a ESTS cohort in a contemporary scenario.
Material and methods: consecutive patients who underwent surgery for primary ESTS from 2006 to 2018 were extracted from a prospectively collected database at our reference center. Patients receiving amputation for either primary tumor or local recurrence (LR) after limb-sparing surgery were selected for analysis.
Results: Among 1628 primary ESTS, 29 patients underwent primary amputation (1.8%), 22/1159 (1.9%) for upper limb and 7/469 (1.5%) for lower limb ESTS. Patients were mainly affected by grade III FNCLCC (89.6%) of notable dimension (median size 16 cm, IQR 10-24). 65.5% of patients received preoperative treatments (systemic or regional chemotherapy, radiotherapy or chemo-radiation). Secondary amputation for LR was performed after a median of 23 months in 16/1599 patients (1%). Median survival time was 16.2 and 29.6 months after primary or secondary amputation respectively. Factors prompting the need for a primary amputation were most often a combination of multifocal disease, bone invasion and pain or neurovascular bundle involvement and relevant comorbidities, mainly for grade III tumors in elderly patients.
Conclusion: Contemporary rate of amputation for ESTS at a reference center is extremely low. Still, amputation is required in selected cases with advanced presentations, especially in elderly, frail patients.
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Conti L, Buriro F, Baia M, Pasquali S, Miceli R, De Rosa L, Gronchi A, Fiore M. Contemporary role of amputation for patients with extremity soft tissue sarcoma. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2023 May;49(5):934-940. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2022.12.002. Epub 2022 Dec 9.
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