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Ewing's sarcoma of the pelvis

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Two hundred and thirty-nine patients with Ewing's sarcoma were treated at our institution between 1972 and 1987: 42 of these had lesions in the pelvis, 29 were in the wing of the ilium or involved the sacroiliac joint (type I), 5 were periacetabular (type II), and 8 were in the anterior pelvic arch (type III). Radiotherapy alone was used for the primary lesion in 11 cases, adjuvant chemotherapy in 20 and a neoadjuvant protocol in 22. The overall disease-free survival at a mean follow up of 34 months was 19%. There was no difference in survival related to age or the site in the pelvis, none in disease-free survival with adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy, or in the incidence of local recurrence and metastases in these two groups. Similarly, there was no difference in disease-free survival between operative treatment, with or without radiotherapy, and radiotherapy alone. There was a slight trend towards better local control of the disease in the former group compared to the latter, although this difference was not statistically significant. Our conclusion is that treatment needs to be planned for each individual patient.

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De 1972 à 1987, 239 patients atteints de sarcome d'Ewing ont été traités à l'Institut Orthopédique Rizzoli. Parmi eux 42 avaient des lésions pelviennes et ont été pris en compte dans cette étude. Vingt-neuf lésions étaient localisées à l'aile iliaque ou atteignaient l'articulation sacro-iliaque (type I), cinq lésions étaient periacétabulaires (type II) et huit étaient localisées à l'arc pelvien antérieur (type III). Dans 11 cas la lésion primitive à été traitée par résection seule ou par résection associée à la radiothérapie. Dans 31 cas on a traité la lésion primitive seulement par radiothérapie. La chimiothérapie adjuvante à été utilisée chez 20 patients alors qu'un protocole «néoadjuvant» a été suivi chez 22 d'entre eux. La survie sans rechute avec un recul moyen de 34 mois a été de 19%. Aucune différence de survie concernant l'âge ou la localisation pelvienne n'a été observée. En comparant les résultats de survie sans rechute aucune différence n'a été notée entre les patients traités par chimiothérapie adjuvante ou «néoadjuvante». Il n'a pas été noté non plus de différences de fréquence des récidives locales ou des métastases entre les 2 groupes. La survie sans rechute a été la même pour les patients dont la lésion primitive, irradiée ou non, a été traitée chirurgicalement (2/11=18,8%) ou simplement par irradiation (6/31=19,4%). La maladie a été un peu mieux contrôlée localement chez les patients traités par la chirurgie: 27,3% de récidives locales au lieu de 38,7% chez les malades irradiés seulement. Cette différence n'est cependant pas statistiquement significative. Les résultats de cette étude nous induisent à penser que le traitement du sarcome d'Ewing du bassin doit être adapté à chaque cas.

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Capanna, R., Toni, A., Sudanese, A. et al. Ewing's sarcoma of the pelvis. International Orthopaedics 14, 57–61 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00183366

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