Skip to main content

Table 2 Tumour and treatment characteristics of patients with local recurrence

From: A single-institutional review of 68 patients with dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: wide re-excision after inadequate previous surgery results in a high rate of local control

Case no.

Entity

Number of recurrences

Margin status after initial resection of the primary tumour

Re-excision

Definite margin status

Negative surgical margin width (cm)

Time to first recurrence (months)

1

DFSP

2

R0

No

R0

0.3

24

2

FS-DFSP

1

R1

No

R1

26

3

DFSP

1

R0

No

R0

0.2

4

4

FS-DFSP

1

R0

No

R0

0.2

14

5

FS-DFSP

1

R1

Yes

R0

0.3

4

6

FS-DFSP

8

R1

Yes

R0

1.0

9

7

FS-DFSP

6

R1

Yes

R1

30

8

FS-DFSP

5

R1

Yes

R0

0.8

8

9

FS-DFSP

1

R1

Yes

R0

0.2

3

10

DFSP

1

R0

No

R0

Not available

5

  1. RFS recurrence-free survival, CI confidence interval