Surgical management of grade I chondrosarcoma of the long bones.
The aim of this study was to compare the rates of local recurrence according to surgical treatment options in low-grade chondrosarcomas of the long bones. A retrospective review was made of 30 consecutive patients (12 male, 18 female) with a mean age of 40.7 years (range: 16-69 years) with intramedullary low-grade chondrosarcoma of the long bones treated either by intralesional curettage or wide resection at our institution between 1995 and 2011. The mean overall follow-up was 74 months (range : 24-186 months). There was no difference in local recurrence rates between patients treated with intralesional resection or wide resection (p = 0.98). Intralesional curettage seems to be feasible in selected cases to reduce the patient's postoperative morbidity in Grade I chondrosarcoma cases.
Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. cungunay@hotmail.com
Cuneyd
C
Gunay
Hakan
H
Atalar
Onur
O
Hapa
Kerem
K
Basarir
Yusuf
Y
Yildiz
Yener
Y
Saglik
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000601:surgery*; D003475:Curettage; D005260:Female; D005266:Femoral Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult