Comparative study of pelvic sarcoma patients undergoing internal and external hemipelvectomy: A meta-analysis study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Malignant and giant pelvic tumors are complex and rare, and hemipelvectomies are complex procedures performed for this malignant lesion. Only a few studies had been conducted on the survival and recurrence of pelvic sarcomas patients undergoing internal or external hemipelvectomy. In the present study, we compared internal with external hemipelvectomy in pelvic sarcomas on clinical outcomes by a meta-analysis.

Methods

The survival and recurrence rates of pelvic sarcomas patients were collected from research reports from CNKI, MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane Database, and Google Scholar until April 2022. The quality of included articles was evaluated by two independent reviewers. Differences between patients undergoing internal and external hemipelvectomy were anal

SUBMITTER: Banskota N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9614061 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature