Why the study?
What is the incidence and implication of regional lymph node involvement in patients with TNM Stage M0 sarcoma of soft tissue?
Population
323 patients with TNM Stage M0 sarcoma of soft tissue treated by the Radiation Medicine Service of the…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
more than 58 months (for patients with metastatic nodes)
Authors
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May inform selective nodal staging in high-grade soft tissue sarcomas; leaves open impact on outcomes in prospective cohorts.
What is the incidence and implication of regional lymph node involvement in patients with TNM Stage M0 sarcoma of soft tissue?
Regional lymph node involvement in soft tissue sarcomas is relatively rare (5.9%) but is more common in high-grade tumors such as rhabdomyosarcoma, vascular sarcoma, and epithelioid sarcoma.
Mazeron et al. (1987) studied this question.
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