Sentinel node biopsy as an adjunct to limb salvage surgery for epithelioid sarcoma of the hand

BACKGROUND: Epithelioid sarcomas of the hand are rare, high-grade tumors with a propensity for regional lymphatic spread approaching 40%. CASE PRESENTATION: A 54-year-old male with an epithelioid sarcoma of the palm was treated with neoadjuvant radiation, wide excision, and two-stage reconstruction....

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Autores principales: Seal, Alex, Tse, Raymond, Wehrli, Bret, Hammond, Alex, Temple, Claire LF
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1192822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15987509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-3-41
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author Seal, Alex
Tse, Raymond
Wehrli, Bret
Hammond, Alex
Temple, Claire LF
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Tse, Raymond
Wehrli, Bret
Hammond, Alex
Temple, Claire LF
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description BACKGROUND: Epithelioid sarcomas of the hand are rare, high-grade tumors with a propensity for regional lymphatic spread approaching 40%. CASE PRESENTATION: A 54-year-old male with an epithelioid sarcoma of the palm was treated with neoadjuvant radiation, wide excision, and two-stage reconstruction. Sentinel lymph node biopsy was used to stage the patient's axilla. Sentinel node biopsy results were negative. The patient has remained free of local, regional and distant disease for the follow-up time of 16 months. CONCLUSION: The rarity of this tumor makes definitive conclusions difficult but SLN biopsy appears to be a useful adjunct in the treatment of these sarcomas.
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spelling pubmed-11928222005-08-27 Sentinel node biopsy as an adjunct to limb salvage surgery for epithelioid sarcoma of the hand Seal, Alex Tse, Raymond Wehrli, Bret Hammond, Alex Temple, Claire LF World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Epithelioid sarcomas of the hand are rare, high-grade tumors with a propensity for regional lymphatic spread approaching 40%. CASE PRESENTATION: A 54-year-old male with an epithelioid sarcoma of the palm was treated with neoadjuvant radiation, wide excision, and two-stage reconstruction. Sentinel lymph node biopsy was used to stage the patient's axilla. Sentinel node biopsy results were negative. The patient has remained free of local, regional and distant disease for the follow-up time of 16 months. CONCLUSION: The rarity of this tumor makes definitive conclusions difficult but SLN biopsy appears to be a useful adjunct in the treatment of these sarcomas. BioMed Central 2005-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC1192822/ /pubmed/15987509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-3-41 Text en Copyright © 2005 Seal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Seal, Alex
Tse, Raymond
Wehrli, Bret
Hammond, Alex
Temple, Claire LF
Sentinel node biopsy as an adjunct to limb salvage surgery for epithelioid sarcoma of the hand
title Sentinel node biopsy as an adjunct to limb salvage surgery for epithelioid sarcoma of the hand
title_full Sentinel node biopsy as an adjunct to limb salvage surgery for epithelioid sarcoma of the hand
title_fullStr Sentinel node biopsy as an adjunct to limb salvage surgery for epithelioid sarcoma of the hand
title_full_unstemmed Sentinel node biopsy as an adjunct to limb salvage surgery for epithelioid sarcoma of the hand
title_short Sentinel node biopsy as an adjunct to limb salvage surgery for epithelioid sarcoma of the hand
title_sort sentinel node biopsy as an adjunct to limb salvage surgery for epithelioid sarcoma of the hand
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1192822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15987509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-3-41
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