[A retrospective study of hand and wrist tumors in adults].
OBJECTIVE
Epidemiologic data concerning hand and wrist tumors are still few and sometimes conflicting. In our department, tumor surgeons and hand surgeons manage together those tumors and they have a specific recruitment. This collaboration permitted to make an epidemiologic study of the tumors of the hand operated in the unit.


METHODS
We made a retrospective study of all the cases of wrist and hand tumors operated in the unit, from January 1980 to September 2008. Files were collected from diagnostic encoding, letters of consultations and the register of the department of histology.


RESULTS
The mean age of the population was 48 years (from 16 to 94 years). The series included 623 tumors treated in 620 patients (372 women and 248 men). Tumors concerned soft tissues in 525 cases (84.1%), bone tissue in 70 cases (11.4%) and skin in 28 cases (4.5%). The prevalence of malign tumors was 1.3% in this study.


CONCLUSIONS
This series is the third in number of cases and the data are comparable of those from other studies. The prevalence of bone tumors (11.4%) is higher than in others studies (from 1.6 to 6.6%) and the prevalence of skin tumors is lower. Except for skin tumors which recruitment modalities are more variable, this series seems to be a good reflection of the prevalence of the different types of hand and wrist tumors.
Marty
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Service de chirurgie orthopédique et traumatologique 2, hôpital Trousseau, CHU de Tours, 37044 Tours cedex, France.
Marteau
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Rosset
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Faizon
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Laulan
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand; D050276:Hand Bones; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014953:Wrist; D014955:Wrist Joint; D055815:Young Adult