Soft-Tissue Sarcomas in Adults in Ecuador in the Period 2010–2020

Table 2

General characteristics of patients with STS.

Variable	ICD-10
	C47	C48	C49	C85.0	C92.3
Days of hospitalization	5.73	7	5.9	5.19	6.64
Sex
Male	239 (64.9)	940 (47.3)	2973 (50.7)	61 (58.1)	35 (50.7)
Female	129 (35.1)	1047 (52.7)	2891 (49.3)	44 (41.9)	34 (49.3)
Region
Coast	133 (36.4)	935 (47.2)	259 (44.4)	57 (54.3)	44 (64.7)
Highlands	198 (54.2)	998 (50.4)	3015 (51.5)	46 (43.8)	23 (33.8)
Amazon	34 (9.3)	48 (2.4)	243 (4.1)	2 (1.9)	1 (1.5)
Insular	0 (0)	0 (0)	3 (0.1)	0 (0)	0 (0)

ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision; STS: soft-tissue sarcoma; C47: malignant neoplasm of peripheral nerves of the head, face, and neck; C48: malignant neoplasm of the retroperitoneum; C49: malignant neoplasm of other connective and soft tissues; C85.0: other specified and unspecified types of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; C92.3: myeloid sarcoma.