title: The integration of vascular surgical techniques with oncological surgical protocols in the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas of the limbs.
abstract: Soft tissue tumors, involving the vascular bundle, require a particular surgical approach: oncological and vascular surgical techniques must be integrated in order to perform a limb-saving surgery with adequate margins. Thirty-six soft tissue sarcomas of the thigh and popliteal region were treated from June 1999 to September 2002. Nineteen cases involving the vascular bundle were analysed and placed in two groups according to imaging and clinical information: Group A, 14 patients, with tumors close to femoral vessels without adventitial infiltration, and Group B, 5 patients, with vascular infiltration. Group A was treated with vascular blunt dissection performing adventitial excision. Group B was treated with vascular "en-bloc" resection and reconstruction. Imaging and clinical information together with surgical techniques, strategies and complications were analysed in order to plan the surgical approach in neoplastic vascular bundle involvement.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Dipartimento di Radiologia, Azienda Ospedaliera CTO, CRF, MA, Torino.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Bertoldo
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Brach del Prever
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gino
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mellano
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Albertini
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Piana
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marone
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Linari
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Forni
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Comandone
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bergnolo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Faletti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mancini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Regis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Seccia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001132:Arm; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008297:Male; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000098:blood supply / Q000601:surgery*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*