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Annals of Surgical Oncology
Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology 11/2016

01-10-2016 | Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Guidelines for the Treatment of Recurrent Retroperitoneal Sarcoma: Are we Trying to Fit a Square Peg into a Round Hole?

Authors: Barry Feig, MD, Robert Benjamin, MD

Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Issue 11/2016

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Soft tissue sarcoma is a rare disease that occurs in approximately 12,000 patients per year in the United States. Of that small population, only about 30 % of those tumors originate in the retroperitoneum.1 This group is further subdivided by the unique finding of there being close to 100 separate histologic diagnoses that make up this group of patients.2 The distinctiveness of behavior of each histologic subtype has only fairly recently become universally accepted.3 These numbers serve to exemplify the rarity and uniqueness of treating soft tissue sarcoma, particularly those of the retroperitoneum. …
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Metadata
Title
Guidelines for the Treatment of Recurrent Retroperitoneal Sarcoma: Are we Trying to Fit a Square Peg into a Round Hole?
Authors
Barry Feig, MD
Robert Benjamin, MD
Publication date
01-10-2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Annals of Surgical Oncology / Issue 11/2016
Print ISSN: 1068-9265
Electronic ISSN: 1534-4681
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-016-5344-7

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