Resection of some-but not all-clinically uninvolved adjacent viscera as part of surgery for retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcomas

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-8

  Pisters, Peter W T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IFOSFAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON RESECTION; DUODENUM; EDITORIAL; FEMORAL NEUROPATHY; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIPOSARCOMA; LIVER; MUSCLE RESECTION; NEPHRECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SPLEEN; SURGICAL APPROACH; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

HUMANS; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISCERA;

EID: 58149348716     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.18.7138     Document Type: Editorial

References (3)

1. Gronchi A, Lo Vullo S, Fiore M, et al: Aggressive surgical policies in a retrospectively reviewed single-institution case series of retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma patients. J Clin Oncol doi:10.1200/JCO.2008.17.8871 [epub ahead of print on December 1, 2008]
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3. Rosenberg SA, Tepper JE, Glatstein EJ, et al: The treatment of soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremities: Prospective randomized evaluations of (1) limb-sparing surgery plus radiation therapy compared with amputation and (2) the role of adjuvant chemotherapy. Ann Surg 196:305-315, 1982