Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2004
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to investigate the viability of perioperative fractionated high dose rate brachytherapy (HDR BT) for primary and reccurent soft tissue sarcomas (STS). From February 1998 through June 2002, 21 adult patients, 11 females and 10 males with either low grade or high grade soft tissue sarcomas were treated by perioperative HDR BT.
Surgical margin was negative in 10 cases, close in 4 and positive in 4 in cases. In 3 cases it was not described.
BT was used as a part of primary treatment in 10 cases and for the treament of reccurent tumor in 11 cases. The localisation of the tumor was the extremity in 16 patients and the trunk in 5 patients.