Pattern of malignant extremity tumors: A review of 58 patients
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Kabir Musa Adamu; AA Mamuda; Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe; Mohammed Kabir Abubakar
- Source
- Archives of International Surgery. 5:78
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Multidisciplinary
business.industry
Disarticulation
medicine.medical_treatment
Wide local excision
Soft tissue sarcoma
Mean age
medicine.disease
Teaching hospital
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Amputation
Orthopedic surgery
Medicine
Upper limb
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2278-9596
Background: Malignant extremity tumors are relatively common in the orthopedic and general surgery units. However there is no study that describes the pattern and outcome in our Kano north central Nigeria. The Objective of this study was to determine the pattern of malignant extremity tumors and the outcome of management. Patients and Method: All malignant extremity tumors that were managed between 1 st January 2008 and 31 st December 2012 in the Orthopedics and General Surgery units of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano were recruited for the study. Information was extracted from records of these patients. Results: Of the 58 patients in the sturdy, 32 (55.2%) were males and 26 (44.8%) were females. The age range was 2-80 years. The mean age of the patients was 32.08 years. 41 (70.6%) patients had lower limb malignancies while 17 (29.3%) had upper limb malignancies. Soft tissue sarcoma has the highest prevalence (37.9%). Excision biopsy or wide local excision (53.4%) and amputation or disarticulation (51.7%) was the commonest surgical procedure done. Conclusion: Lower extremity malignancies are the commonest. They are commoner in males. Soft tissue sarcoma and malignant skin tumors are more common than malignant bone tumors of the extremities.