Affiliation:
1. Hannover Medical School Department of Trauma Surgery Hannover Germany
2. University of Oldenburg Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Pius Hospital Oldenburg Germany
3. Hannover Medical School Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Hannover Germany
4. Ludwig‐Maximilians‐University Department of General Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery Munich Germany
Abstract
AbstractBackground and ObjectivesSurgical resection with microscopically negative margins constitutes one of the key elements of a curative therapeutic approach for localized sarcomas. However, the prognostic value of quantitative margin width remains controversial. We sought to determine the prognostic significance of margin status and margin width for local recurrence (LR), distant recurrence (DR), and overall survival.MethodsRetrospective analysis of 210 patients undergoing resection of localized sarcoma between 1997 and 2018 at a national sarcoma reference center.ResultsLogistic regression did not reveal an effect of metric margin width as a prognostic factor for LR (odds ratio [OR] = 0.98, p = 0.574), DR (OR = 1, p = 0.908), or overall survival (hazard ratio = 0.98, 95% confidence interval = 0.73–1.20, p = 0.609). Subgroup analysis revealed no differences between complete first resections (R0) and re‐resections (re‐R0) following unplanned R1‐resections for LR (p = 0.727) and overall survival (p = 0.125), but a significantly higher DR‐rate in re‐R0 cases (p = 0.022).ConclusionsAchieving a negative margin is essential in sarcoma surgery, however, metric margin width was not associated with disease‐specific outcomes. Re‐resection of unplanned R1‐resections should be performed to control for LR and overall survival rates. As re‐R0 cases were at significantly higher risk of DR, these patients should be followed up closely in standardized surveillance protocols.
Subject
Oncology,General Medicine,Surgery
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