Population
75 adult patients with myxofibrosarcoma, median age 66 years, with approximately equal incidence in men and…
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
average 45 months (range, 5-300 months)
Authors
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High recurrence rate in myxofibrosarcoma warrants close surveillance; leaves open validation of grade- and depth-specific risks in larger series.
Myxofibrosarcoma has a high rate of local recurrence (54%) which is independent of histologic grade, while metastases and tumor-related deaths are associated with intermediate and high-grade, deep-seated neoplasms.
Mentzel et al. (1996) studied this question.
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