ArticleSarcoma2012
Reliability of Margin Assessment after Surgery for Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma: The SSG Experience.
Article in Sarcoma, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Significance of a "Close" Margin in Extremity Sarcoma: A Systematic Review.The Iowa orthopaedic journal · 2018Pooled it
- Assessment of extent of surgical resection of primary high-grade osteosarcoma by treating institutions: A report from the Children's Oncology Group.Journal of surgical oncology · 2016Trial
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- The Impact of Surgical Margin Distance on Local Recurrence and Survival in Patients with Soft Tissue Sarcoma.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
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- Effect of Neoadjuvant Therapies on Soft Tissue Sarcomas with Tail-like Lesions: A Multicenter Retrospective Study.Cancers · 2021Article
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- Is the Width of a Surgical Margin Associated with the Outcome of Disease in Patients with Peripheral Chondrosarcoma of the Pelvis? A Multicenter Study.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2019Article
- [Resection margins in soft tissue sarcomas].Der Orthopade · 2019Review
- Surgical Reconstruction after Resection of a Large Myxofibrosarcoma of the Upper Extremity.Revista brasileira de ortopedia · 2019Article
- [Minutes of the meeting of the working group on bone, joint, and soft tissue pathology : DGP Congress on 24 May 2018, Berlin].Der Pathologe · 2018Article
- The changing paradigm of resection margins in sarcoma resection.Innovative surgical sciences · 2017Review
- The Scandinavian Sarcoma Group Central Register: 6,000 patients after 25 years of monitoring of referral and treatment of extremity and trunk wall soft-tissue sarcoma.Acta orthopaedica · 2017Article
- A Novel System for the Surgical Staging of Primary High-grade Osteosarcoma: The Birmingham Classification.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2017Article
- Upper extremity sarcoma: impact of current practice guidelines and controversies on reconstructive approaches.SICOT-J · 2017Article
- The Width of the Surgical Margin Does Not Influence Outcomes in Extremity and Truncal Soft Tissue Sarcoma Treated With Radiotherapy.The oncologist · 2016Article
- Primary flap reconstruction of tissue defects after sarcoma surgery enables curative treatment with acceptable functional results: a 7-year review.BMC surgery · 2015Article
- High-grade soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities: surgical margins influence only local recurrence not overall survival.International orthopaedics · 2015Article
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Surgery remains the mainstay of soft tissue sarcoma (STS) treatment and has been the primary treatment for the majority of patients in Scandinavia during the last 30 years although the use of adjuvant radiotherapy has increased. Patient and treatment characteristics have been recorded in the Scandinavian Sarcoma Group (SSG) Register since 1987. When the effect of new radiotherapy guidelines from 1998 was evaluated, the reliability of surgical margin assessments among different Scandinavian institutions was investigated. Margins were reevaluated by a panel of sarcoma surgeons, studying pathology and surgical reports from 117 patients, randomly selected among 470 recorded patients treated between 1998-2003. In 80% of cases, the panel agreed with the original classification. Disagreement was most frequent when addressing the distinction between marginal and wide margins. Considered the element of judgment inherent in all margin assessment, we find this reliability acceptable for using the Register for studies of local control of STS.
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