Michaela M Schneiderbauer, Charlene Blanchard, Rachel Gullerud, William S Harmsen, Michael G Rock, Thomas C Shives, Franklin H Sim, Sean P Scully
This is the first report of a large series of patients with scapular chondrosarcomas. The grade distributions, locations of the tumors in the scapula, surgical techniques, status of margins, chondrosarcoma subtypes, Enneking stages, adjuvant therapies, local recurrence rates, metastasis rates, and survival prognoses of patients with scapular chondrosarcoma were evaluated. Forty-seven patients treated between 1921 and 1999 were analyzed retrospectively. Grade 3 disease was significantly associated with a poorer survival prognosis when compared with Grades 1 or 2 disease...
September 2004: Clinical Orthopaedics and related Research