Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma: Analysis of Outcome of a Rare Neoplasm

Martin D. McCarter; Jonathan J. Lewis; Cristina R. Antonescu; Murray F. Brennan

doi:10.1080/13577140020008084

Sarcoma (Jan 2000)

Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma: Analysis of Outcome of a Rare Neoplasm

Martin D. McCarter,
Jonathan J. Lewis,
Cristina R. Antonescu,
Murray F. Brennan

Affiliations

Martin D. McCarter: Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
Jonathan J. Lewis: Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
Cristina R. Antonescu: Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
Murray F. Brennan: Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13577140020008084
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4, no. 3
pp. 119 – 123

Abstract

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Purpose. Extraskeletal osteosarcoma represents an unusual soft-tissue sarcoma that historically is reported to carry an exceptionally poor prognosis.The objectives of this study were to use a prospectively gathered sarcoma database to test the prevailing clinical bias and more accurately describe the natural history, characterize the prognostic features, estimate survival and evaluate treatment strategies for this unusual sarcoma.

Published in Sarcoma

ISSN: 1357-714X (Print); 1369-1643 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/5805

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