Abstract
This report was based on a retrospectire study of clinical results of 35 patients (20 bone tumors: 11 osteosarcomas, 4 chondrosarcomas, 4 chordomas and one Ewing’s sarcoma; 15 soft tissue tumors: 5 liposarcomas, 3 malignant fibrous histiocytomas, 3 leiomyosarcomas, 3 synovial sarcomas and one rhabdomyosarcoma). The average age at the time of operation was 44 years (12-85 years), and the mean follow-up period was 52 momths. All tumors were resected by wide margin and all osteosarcomas, Ewing’s sarcoma and all synovial sarcomas were treated with neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. The limb-salvage rate and 5-year survival rate were retrospectively analyzed by the Kaplan-Meier method. The 5-year survival rate was 69%, and the limb-salvage rate was 71%.
