Case Report
Lymph Node Metastasis after a Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the Leg: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature
Table 2
Three studies on the number of patients with a STS who developed RLNM in various anatomical locations.
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Anatomical location | Number of patients | Number of RLNMs | Percentage |
| Head and Neck | | | | Mazeron and Suit [9] | 20 | 3 | 15% | Fong et al. [10] | 45 | 5 | 11% | Behranwala et al. [12] | 75 | 6 | 8% |
| Total | 140 | 14 | 10% |
| Upper extremity | | | | Mazeron and Suit [9] | 42 | 6 | 14% | Fong et al. [10] | 47 | 7 | 15% | Behranwala et al. [12] | 70 | 7 | 10% |
| Total | 159 | 20 | 13% |
| Lower extremity | | | | Mazeron and Suit [9] | 122 | 6 | 5% | Fong et al. [10] | 46 | 19 | 41% | Behranwala et al. [12] | 73 | 33 | 45% |
| Total | 241 | 58 | 24% |
| Trunk | | | | Mazeron and Suit [9] | 102 | 4 | 4% | Fong et al. [10] | 500 | 5 | 1% | Behranwala et al. [12] | 73 | 11 | 15% |
| Total | 675 | 20 | 3% |
| Abdominal and Thoracic Viscera | | | | Mazeron and Suit [9] | 23 | 0 | 0% | Fong et al. [10] | 43 | 3 | 7% | Behranwala et al. [12] | 73 | 11 | 15% |
| Total | 139 | 14 | 10% |
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