Fig. 1From: Is revisional surgery mandatory when an unexpected sarcoma diagnosis is made following primary surgery?Resection status. Resection status was defined as complete resection (R0 resection), microscopic residual tumor (R1 resection), and macroscopic incomplete resection (R2 resection). It is displayed on the x-axis. Of the patients referred for definitive treatment with complete data sets (n = 96), 16.7 % had R0 resection status, 69.8 % had R1 resection status, and 13.5 % had R2 resection status. By contrast, of the patients who underwent primary excision at our institute (n = 94), 83 % had R0 resection status, 13.8 % had R1 resection status, and 3.2 % had R2 resection status. The resection status of referred patients at presentation was significantly inferior to that of patients treated exclusively at our CCC (Chi2 test, p < 0.0001). After re-excision, 93.8 % of the referred patients had R0 resection status and 6.3 % had R1 resection statusBack to article page