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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROFILE AND EVOLUTION IN MUSCULOSKELETAL TUMORS AT THE LEVEL OF THE ELBOW
Vinicius DE Abreu Mazzolin1, Julia Rocha Kalluf2, Fiama Kuroda Ogata2
1Grupo de Apoio à Criança com Câncer, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil.
Objective:
To present the epidemiological profile of bone and soft tissue tumors that affect the elbow region treated at an oncology referral center in Brazil.
Methods:
Retrospective observational case series study to evaluate the results of elbow cancer undergoing clinical and/or surgical treatment with the first visit from 1990 to 2020. The dependent variables were benign bone tumor, malignant bone tumor, benign soft tissue tumor, malignant soft tissue tumor. Independent variables were sex, age; presence of symptoms (pain/increase in local volume/fracture); diagnosis; treatment and recurrence.
Results:
In total, 37 patients were included, 51.35% of whom were female, with a mean age at diagnosis of 33.5 years. Soft tissue neoplasms correspond to 51% of cases against 49% of bone tumors. Among the symptoms, the general prevalence of pain was 56.75%, the general increase in local volume occurred in 54.04% of the patients and the presence of fractures in 13.43%. Surgical treatment occurred in 75.67% of cases and recurrence in 16.21% of cases.
Conclusion:
The tumors that affect the elbow in our series correspond mostly to benign tumors, involving bone or soft tissues, with a higher occurrence in young adult patients.
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