Clinical Study
Incidence and Severity of Lymphoedema following Limb Salvage of Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Table 2
Patient demographics and tumor and clinical characteristics in relation to lymphoedema severity.
| Variable () | Lymphoedema <2 | Lymphoedema ≥2 |
| Age at surgery (288) | | | Mean | 52 | 58 | Range | 16–86 | 19–88 | Gender (288) | | | Male | 144 | 14 | Female | 119 | 11 | Presenting status (288) | | | Primary | 249 | 24 | Local recurrence | 12 | 1 | Unplanned | 2 | 0 | Extremity (288) | | | Upper | 59 | 22 | Lower | 204 | 3 | Tumor size (288) [cm] | | | Mean | 7.1 | 11.4 | Range | 1.0–35.6 | 4.5–20.5 | Tumor depth (288) | | | Superficial | 78 | 0 | Deep | 185 | 25 | AJCC Stage (272) | | | IA | 42 | 0 | IB | 18 | 0 | IIA | 63 | 8 | IIB | 52 | 2 | IIC | 12 | 1 | III | 62 | 12 |
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