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The current standard of care for patients with extremity soft-tissue sarcomas is to obtain imaging of the chest for staging and surveillance. Our institutional standard of care has been to obtain CT scans of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis to evaluate for metastatic disease. Cost and radiation risk led us...

Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma (PDQ®): Treatment
Soft tissue sarcomas are malignant tumors that may arise in any of the mesodermal tissues of the extremities (50%), trunk and retroperitoneum (40%), or head and neck (10%). Rarely, these tumors arise in the gastrointestinal tract or gastrointestinal stroma. Soft tissue sarcomas occur with greater frequency in patients...

Childhood Soft Tissue Sarcoma (PDQ®): Treatment
This cancer treatment information summary provides an overview of the prognosis, diagnosis, classification, and treatment of childhood soft tissue sarcoma.

This is a rare sarcoma but is important from the standpoint that under the microscope, it can mimic many benign and malignant conditions. As the name also suggests, it has microscopic features that can sometimes resemble a carcinoma. Unlike most sarcomas, it has a propensity to spread to lymph nodes.

Illustrated cases

Marco Ferrone, MD* Marc H. Isler, MD† Soft-tissue sarcoma involving the popliteal fossa remains challenging because it is difficult to achieve wide margins with limb salvage in this location. Adju- vant therapy is frequently necessary, and limb function can be adversely affected. We reviewed our experience with these tumours.
Despite the...

A late effect of ionizing radiation is the development of sarcoma within the field of irradiation, referred to as postradiation sarcoma (PRS). Ionizing radiation has had many varied uses in medicine. In early years, in addition to being used in the treatment of a variety of malignancies, radiation was used...