Core needle biopsy (CNB) is gaining in importance due to its advantages in the matter of patient morbidity, time and cost. Nevertheless, controversies still exist regarding the biopsy technique of choice for the accurate diagnosis of soft tissue sarcoma (STS). This retrospective cohort study compared the diagnostic performance between ultrasound-guided CNB and incisional biopsy (IB), both performed by orthopedic surgeons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this case series was to assess sports activity levels in long-term survivors of soft-tissue sarcomas after multimodal treatment including limb salvaging surgical resection and radio-chemotherapy. Thirty-two patients (17 f/15 m) with a mean age of 29 (range 10-44) years at the time of diagnosis and a mean follow-up time of 9 (range 3-21) years following sarcoma were included. Ten patients had been diagnosed with liposarcoma, seven with synovial sarcoma, four with fibrosarcoma, three with undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcomas and the remaining eight patients with different soft-tissue sarcoma entities.
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