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Impact Of Unplanned Excision On Prognosis Of Patients With Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Hafiz Muhammad Umer, Masood Umer, Irfan Qadir, Nadeem Abbasi, Nehal Masood

Section of Orthopaedic Surgery

Unplanned excision of soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) outside comprehensive tumor management centers necessitates the need for wide reexcision to achieve adequate margins. We retrospectively reviewed medical records of 135 patients with STS operated at our hospital with the goal of examining outcomes, in terms of local recurrence (LR) and metastasis rate (MR), of reexcision following unplanned excision of STS and comparing results with those of first-time planned surgery. Eighty-four patients had their first-time surgery and 51 patients had come to us following unplanned excision at prereferral hospital. Mean age of all patients was 41.8 ± 21.9 years. The LR and …