Foot malignancies: a multidisciplinary approach

Surgical treatment of malignant tumors of the foot and ankle

“…17 Protection of the extremity increases the functional score and enhances psychologic acceptance by the patient following the surgical procedure. 13,14 In the current series, wide margins were achieved in all but one of the patients, and almost half of the patients had a normal functional score. The rest experienced mild or moderate limitations, but none of them experienced pain requiring narcotics, or complications necessitating amputation.…”

“…Reports in the current literature also emphasize the utilization of free musculoskeletal tissue transfer, in order to achieve limb salvage in foot sarcomas, preserving meaningful foot function. 13,14 A three-point gait is an essential part of physiologic locomotion. The calcaneum forms the posterior part of this tripod.…”

Management of primary malignant bone and soft tissue tumors of foot and ankle: Is it worth salvaging?

“…However, the study focuses on limb salvage in an inescapably challenging setting, considering that the subjects were primary malignant foot and ankle tumor cases with a mean tumor volume of 64 cm 3 and 64.6% osteoarticular involvement rate at presentation. Radiotherapy, which is administered preoperatively and/or postoperatively, has become the standard adjuvant treatment for high‐grade soft‐tissue sarcomas to achieve safer margins . Radiotherapy is also commonly utilized in the preoperative setting for Ewing's sarcoma cases with inadequate chemotherapy response.…”

In vivo characterisation of soft tissue tumours by 1.5-T proton MR spectroscopy

“…The prevalence of benign soft tissue tumours is by far higher than that of malignant ones with a ratio of benign to malignant tumours of about 10 to 1 [1][2][3].…”