We present the case of a 52-year-old male patient with recurrence of a soft-tissue sarcoma of the left leg treated with percutaneous laser ablation. The patient received the diagnosis of sarcoma for the first time in 2011; further local recurrences and a pulmonary metastatic spread occurred during follow-up, so the patient has been treated several times with chemotherapy, limb-sparing surgery and radiotherapy. In September 2017, a new local recurrence of sarcoma occurred, for which limb amputation was proposed but refused by the patient. Laser ablation with ultrasound guidance was performed, with complete ablation at 6 months and limb salvage.
Laser thermal ablation to treat a recurrent soft-tissue sarcoma of the leg : A case report / C. De Angelis, P. Della Vigna, G.M. Varano, G. Mauri. - In: ECANCERMEDICALSCIENCE. - ISSN 1754-6605. - 13:(2019), pp. 908.1-908.8. [10.3332/ecancer.2019.908]
Laser thermal ablation to treat a recurrent soft-tissue sarcoma of the leg : A case report
C. De Angelis
;G. Mauri
2019
Abstract
We present the case of a 52-year-old male patient with recurrence of a soft-tissue sarcoma of the left leg treated with percutaneous laser ablation. The patient received the diagnosis of sarcoma for the first time in 2011; further local recurrences and a pulmonary metastatic spread occurred during follow-up, so the patient has been treated several times with chemotherapy, limb-sparing surgery and radiotherapy. In September 2017, a new local recurrence of sarcoma occurred, for which limb amputation was proposed but refused by the patient. Laser ablation with ultrasound guidance was performed, with complete ablation at 6 months and limb salvage.
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