Surgical considerations in the treatment of sarcoma of the buttock

Abstract

MANAGEMENT of malignant neo-S plasms is determined largely by the anacomical location of the tumor. Although neoplasms may vary considerably in histological appearance, generic type, metastasizing poten tialities, and prognostic significance, they usually require the surgeon, in planning treatment, to categorize them in accordance with their anatomical location. Thus, infiltrating duct carcinoma of the breast and melanoma of the skin of the breast will both be treated by similar surgery, a1 though the tumors themselves bear no particular similarity to each other. T h e same may be said for carcinoma of the stomach, and reticulum-cell sarcoma of the stomach, or for osteogenic sarcoma and synovial sarcoma of the lower extremity, to mention other self-evident examples.