Are Biopsy Tracts a Concern for Seeding and Local Recurrence in Sarcomas?

CONCLUSIONS: Open biopsies were associated with an increased risk of tumoral seeding of the biopsy site, and tumoral seeding was associated with an increased risk of local recurrence. However, it is possible that other factors, such as increased complexity of the tumor or a difficult location, influenced the decision to obtain an open biopsy. Even so, based on these results, we believe that higher risk of local recurrence may be caused by an incomplete biopsy tract resection. In our opinion, the percutaneous biopsy with neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy is the preferred method of biopsy at our center. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, therapeutic study. PMID: 27655183 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - September 20, 2016 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Barrientos-Ruiz I, Ortiz-Cruz EJ, Serrano-Montilla J, Bernabeu-Taboada D, Pozo-Kreilinger JJ Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research