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Table 2 References on amputation rate of extremity soft tissue sarcoma in Western studies

From: Amputation in patients with extremity soft tissue sarcoma: the experience of an East Asian referral center

Author

Year

Number of cohort

Number of amputation

Amputation rate for localized disease (%)

Primary amputation rate (%)

Eliber et al.

1980

105

21

52.5

NA

Collin et al.

1987

107

34

31.7

NA

Williard et al.

1992

649

92

14.1

NA

Keus et al.

1994

156

13

8.3

NA

Pitcher et al.

1994

219

9

4.1

2.4

Pitcher et al.

2000

439

21

4.7

NA

Trovik et al.

2001

1613

NA

22

9.6

Ghert et al.

2005

413

25

6.3

6.3

Potter et al.

2009

170

26

15.3

NA

Alamanda et al.

2012

278

16

5.7

3.5

Stevenson et al.

2017

NA

39

NA

NA

Smith et al.

2018

556

69

10.6

4.1

Erstad et al.

2018

NA

54

NA

NA

Current study

2023

596

22

3.6

1.8

  1. NA: not available