Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Analysis of Risk Factors of Local Recurrence in Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Limbs: Review of the Literature

Abstract

Giuseppe Caff

Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are rare neoplasms (1% of all cancers in US with a prevalence of 10520 new cases/year) although there are more than 50 different histological type.The current management of STS is addressed to excision of the tumor and to preserve limb function as better as possible; respectingthis balance has been always a challenge for the orthopedic oncology and the importance of treating patients with such sarcomas with wideradical resections obtaining negative pathological margins has beenunderlined in many studies.