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Adult Urologic Sarcoma: Experience During 2 Decades
Adult Urologic Sarcoma: Experience During Two Decades
M Froehner, RR Schober, R Koch, A Lossnitzer, M Laniado, MP Wirth
20111015
2011 Nov 15
Urol Oncol
Adult Urologic Sarcoma: Experience During 2 Decades
Urol Oncol. 2011 Nov 15;[Epub Ahead of Print], M Froehner, RR Schober, R Koch, A Lossnitzer, M Laniado, MP Wirth
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Abstract
Abstract
Objective: To identify factors associated with long-term outcome and to report possibly meaningful clinical features in a unicentric sample of adult urologic sarcomas.Materials and Methods: Thirty-five patients treated between 1992 and 2011 were studied. Except for 3 patients, surgery was the initial treatment. The median follow-up in the surviving (censored) patients was 11.3 years. Kaplan-Meier method and competing risk analysis were used to evaluate outcome. Disease recurrence, disease-specific...