Malignant Soft-Tissue Tumors of Foot and Surgical Treatment

 Malignant soft tissue Tumours of the foot represent a unique subset of all soft tissue tumours, showing variance in type, location, age, prognosis, and treatment from tumours in the rest of the musculoskeletal system. The main objective was to describe the prevalence, demography and anatomical distribution of the malignant soft tissue tumours of the foot and subsequently, analyze the significance of operation, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy for local control and survival rate in patients with foot malignant tumours.

 The malignant soft-tissue foot tumours surgically treated by the author during a 6-years period (2010-2016) were retrospectively studied for their presenting symptomatology, treatment modalities and outcomes. The follow-up was considered for at least 5 years survival benchmark.

 Only three of our patients under went amputation as a primary surgical plan. Others went under limb-salvage surgeries. Operation type had no significant effect on overall survival in our case series. The results of this study support the use of wide surgical excision and limb salvage surgery if obtainable, which is similar to previous reports.

 Our study focused exclusively on the presentation, treatments and outcomes of malignant soft-tissue tumours of the foot. By focusing solely on malignant soft-tissue tumours of the foot we hoped to better characterize the presentation, treatment and outcomes of this rare clinical entity.