Treatment of Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas

I. Diagnostics

1. Biopsy of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumours: Hints and Hazards
Andreas Leithner, Werner Maurer-Ertl, Reinhard Windhager

2. The Role of Intra-operative Pathological Evaluation in the Management of Musculoskeletal Tumours
Robert U. Ashford, Richard A. Scolyer, Stanley W. McCarthy, S. Fiona Bonar, Rooshdiya Z. Karim, Paul D. Stalley

3. Sentinel Node Biopsy in Soft Tissue Sarcome
Dimosthenis Andreou, Per-Ulf Tunn

II. Bone Sarcomas

4. Modular Endoprosthetic Reconstruction in Malignant Bone Tumors: Indications and Limits
Maurice Balke, Helmut Ahrens, Arne Streitbürger, Georg Gosheger, Jendrik Hardes

5. Allograft Reconstruction in Malignant Bone Tumors: Indications and Limits
Kevin A. Raskin, Francis Hornicek

6. Expandable Endoprostheses in Malignant Bone Tumors in Children: Indications and Limitations
Rainer Baumgart, Ulrich Lenze

7. The Long-Term Risks of Infection and Amputation with Limb Salvage Surgery Using Endoprostheses
Lee Jeys, Robert Grimer

8. Reconstruction of the Pelvis After Resection of Malignant Bone Tumours in Children and Adolescents
Martin Dominkus, Eslam Darwish, Philipp Funovics

9. Methods of Biological Reconstruction for Bone Sarcoma: Indications and Limits
Pierre Kunz, Ludger Bernd

10. Bone Sarcoma of the Spine
Klaus-Dieter Schaser, I. Melcher, A. Luzzati, A. C. Disch

11. Computer-Assisted Pelvic Tumor Resection: Fields of Application, Limits, and Perspectives
Sebastian Fehlberg, Sebastian Eulenstein, Thomas Lange, Dimosthenis Andreou, Per-Ulf Tunn

12. Pulmonary Metastasectomy for Osteosarcoma: Is It Justified?
Klaus-Dieter Diemel, Heinz-Jürgen Klippe, Detlev Branscheid

III. Soft Tissue Sarcomas

13. Standardized Approach to the Treatment of Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the Extremities
Per-Ulf Tunn, Christoph Kettelhack, Hans Roland Dürr

14. Evaluating Surgery Quality in Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Eberhard Stoeckle, Jean-Michel Coindre, Michèle Kind, Guy Kantor, Binh N. Bui

15. Peripheral Nerve Considerations in the Management of Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Peter C. Ferguson, Anna A. Kulidjian, Kevin B. Jones, Benjamin M. Deheshi, Jay S. Wunder

16. Isolated Limb Perfusion with TNF-α and Melphalan in Locally Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Extremities
Dirk J. Grünhagen, Johannes H.W. de Wilt, Albertus N. Van Geel, Cornelis Verhoef, Alexander M.M. Eggermont

17. Management of Locally Recurrent Soft Tissue Sarcoma after Prior Surgery and Radiation Therapy
Peter Hohenberger, Matthias H.M. Schwarzbach

18. Management of Vascular Involvement in Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Ashish Mahendra, Yair Gortzak, Peter C. Ferguson, Benjamin M. Deheshi, Thomas F. Lindsay, Jay S. Wunder

19. Current Concepts in the Management of Retroperitoneal Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Matthias H.M. Schwarzbach, Peter Hohenberger

20. Pulmonary Metastasectomy for Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Is It Justified?
Joachim Pfannschmidt, Hans Hoffmann, Thomas Schneider, Hendrik Dienemann

IV. Quality of Life Assessment

21. Quality of Life (QOL) in Patients with Osteosarcoma
Rajaram Nagarajan

22. Clinical Trials in Osteosarcoma Treatment: Patients' Perspective Through Art
Lizzie Burns, Martha Perisoglou

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Orthopedics