Equal quality of life after limb-sparing or ablative surgery for lower extremity sarcomas

This study investigated quality of life (QoL) and function of 124 patients with lower extremity sarcoma who underwent either amputation or limb-salvage surgery (LSS) in order to assess potential differences in subjective treatment outcome. The results reflect similar QoL in both treatment groups. Ho...

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Autores principales: Zahlten-Hinguranage, A, Bernd, L, Ewerbeck, V, Sabo, D
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2004
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15292924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602104
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description This study investigated quality of life (QoL) and function of 124 patients with lower extremity sarcoma who underwent either amputation or limb-salvage surgery (LSS) in order to assess potential differences in subjective treatment outcome. The results reflect similar QoL in both treatment groups. However, in contrast to patients with LSS, who described QoL in terms of a high physical performance status with sports and recreational activities, amputees' QoL was strongly associated with their social acceptability. High QoL in amputees brings into question the expectations held with time-consuming advanced technical skills for LSS by physicians.
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spelling pubmed-27477102009-09-21 Equal quality of life after limb-sparing or ablative surgery for lower extremity sarcomas Zahlten-Hinguranage, A Bernd, L Ewerbeck, V Sabo, D Br J Cancer Short Communication This study investigated quality of life (QoL) and function of 124 patients with lower extremity sarcoma who underwent either amputation or limb-salvage surgery (LSS) in order to assess potential differences in subjective treatment outcome. The results reflect similar QoL in both treatment groups. However, in contrast to patients with LSS, who described QoL in terms of a high physical performance status with sports and recreational activities, amputees' QoL was strongly associated with their social acceptability. High QoL in amputees brings into question the expectations held with time-consuming advanced technical skills for LSS by physicians. Nature Publishing Group 2004-09-13 2004-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2747710/ /pubmed/15292924 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602104 Text en Copyright © 2004 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_short Equal quality of life after limb-sparing or ablative surgery for lower extremity sarcomas
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