Epithelioid sarcoma and concurrent Volkman ischaemic contracture: a case report.

Epithelioid sarcoma is a very infrequent soft tissue sarcoma involving predominantly distal extremities of adolescent and young adult. We hereby report a case of epithelioid sarcoma in a 34-year-old young adult who presented with 1-year history of a painful left upper limb associated subsequently with warm left forearm swelling and a Volkman contracture. He was treated as an inflamed soft tissue condition of the left upper limb.

Intensified adjuvant IFADIC chemotherapy in combination with radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for soft tissue sarcoma: long-term follow-up of a prospective randomized feasibility trial.

Adjuvant chemotherapy for grade 2 and 3 soft tissue sarcoma (STS) patients still has to be considered experimental. Fifty-nine patients underwent primary surgery by wide or marginal excision and were subsequently randomized to receive radiotherapy alone or in combination with six courses of chemotherapy consisting of ifosfamide, DTIC, and doxorubicin administered in 14-day intervals supported by G-CSF on days 5-13. Twenty-eight patients received radiotherapy (control group) and 31 patients were treated with additional chemotherapy.

Low-grade chondrosarcoma of bone: experiences from the Vienna Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Registry.

In a retrospective single-centre study, 70 low-grade chondrosarcoma (LCS) (31 female/39 male patients with a mean age of 40 years) were reviewed to evaluate surgical management. The mean overall follow-up was 81 months (median: 73 months, range: 6-317 months). Seventeen lesions (24.

Elevated risk of myocardial infarction in very young immigrants from former Yugoslavia.

We performed a hospital based case-control study to assess if the risk of myocardial infarction at a very young age (< or =40 years) was elevated in immigrants from the region of former Yugoslavia. Patients were classified as "exposed" if they or both their parents were born in former Yugoslavia. Consecutive myocardial infarction patients were recruited in the immediate post-infarction period from two Viennese hospitals over a 3.

Prognostic factors and outcomes for osteosarcoma: an international collaboration.

We aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of traditional clinical predictors in osteosarcoma through an international collaboration of 10 teams of investigators (2680 patients) who participated. In multivariate models the mortality risk increased with older age, presence of metastatic disease at diagnosis, development of local recurrence when the patient was first seen, use of amputation instead of limb salvage/wide resection, employment of unusual treatments, use of chemotherapeutic regimens other than anthracycline and platinum and use of methotrexate. It was also influenced by the site of the tumour.