Clinical results of surgery for retroperitoneal sarcoma with major blood vessel involvement.

Purpose: The study was conducted to evaluate the clinical results of resection for retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma (STS) with vascular involvement.

Methods: The study group consisted of consecutive patients (mean age, 52 years) who underwent surgery for retroperitoneal STS with vascular involvement. The procedures were performed between 1988 and 2004.

Ruptured angiosarcoma of the liver treated by emergency catheter-directed embolization.

Angiosarcoma is a rare primary malignant neoplasm of the liver with a poor prognosis. Here, we report a case of a patient with a ruptured hepatic angiosarcoma which was treated by emergency catheter-directed embolization, followed by left-sided hemihepatectomy.

Malignant vascular tumors: clinical presentation, surgical therapy, and long-term prognosis.

Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the presentation of, surgery for, and prognosis of malignant vascular tumors (MVTs).

Methods: This was an observational single-center study. Patients who underwent operation for MVTs between 1988 and 2004 were included.

Results of limb-sparing surgery with vascular replacement for soft tissue sarcoma in the lower extremity.

Objective: To evaluate limb-salvage surgery with vascular resection for lower extremity soft tissue sarcomas (STS) in adult patients and to classify blood vessel involvement.

Methods: Subjects were consecutive patients (median age, 56 years) who underwent vascular replacement during surgery of STS in the lower limb between January 1988 and December 2003. Blood vessel involvement by STS was classified as follows: type I, artery and vein; type II, artery only; type III, vein only; and type IV, neither artery nor vein (excluded from the analysis).