OBJECTIVE: To determinate the prognostic factors associated with the local relapse in patients treated for soft tissue sarcoma in extremities. METHODS: Retrospectively, 30 patients were evaluated after being treated with surgical resection of soft tissue sarcoma located in extremities, with a outcome of 36,5 ± 12,2 months. The prognostic factors evaluated were: age, sex, location, depth, location in the anatomic compartments, size, tumor previous manipulation, surgical margins, grade of histological malignance, presence of histological necrosis or histological vascular invasion. These factors were correlated with the local relapse of the tumor with a univariated and multivariated analysis with significance when p = 0,05. RESULTS: Local relapse presented significant correlaction in univariated and multivariated analysis with extra-compartimental location (p = 0,001) and with high grade histological malignance (p = 0,001). There was no significant association with age (p = 1,000), sex (p = 1,000), body location (p = 0,544), depth (p = 0,288), size (p = 0,694), surgical margins (p = 0,384), previous manipulation (p = 0,461), necrosis (p = 0,461) or with the presence of vascular invasion (p = 1,000). CONCLUSION: Local relapse presents correlaction with extra-compartimental location and with high grade malignancy tumors.
Neoplasms; Soft tissue sarcoma; Neoplasm recurrence
