Research Article
Preoperative Factors Associated with Infiltrative Histologic Growth Patterns in Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Table 1
Preoperative characteristics.
| | Patient characteristics | |
| | Mean age (yrs, ) | 50.0 (19.7) | | Gender (, %) | | | Female | 63 (44) | | Male | 81 (56) | | Presentation status (, %) | | | Fresh | 101 (70) | | Recurred | 22 (15) | | Unplanned excision | 21 (15) | | Radiation therapy (, %) | | | Preoperative | 1 (1) | | Postoperative | 82 (57) | | Not done | 61 (42) | | Dose of radiation therapy (Gy, range) | 60 (50–65) | | Chemotherapy (, %) | | | Preoperative | 3 (2) | | Postoperative | 18 (13) | | Pre- and postoperative | 7 (5) | | Not done | 116 (80) |
| | Tumor characteristics | |
| | Size (cm, SD) | 7.7 (6.4) | | Depth (, %) | | | Superficial | 21 (15) | | Deep | 123 (85) | | Compartmental status (, %) | | | Intracompartmental | 91 (63) | | Extracompartmental | 53 (37) | | FNCLCC grade (, %) | | | 1 | 23 (16) | | 2 | 54 (38) | | 3 | 67 (46) | | Histologic type (, %) | | | | 26 (18) | | Synovial sarcoma | 23 (16) | | Myxofibrosarcoma | 22 (15) | | Liposarcoma | 17 (12) | | Leiomyosarcoma | 14 (10) | | Others | 42 (29) |
| | MRI characteristics | |
| | Peritumoral edema (, %) | | | Absent | 105 (73) | | Present | 39 (27) | | Tumor border on MRI (, %) | | | Pushing | 57 (40) | | Infiltrative | 87 (60) |
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, standard deviation; ; undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma.
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