The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) published clinical guidelines in 2006 defining urgent referral criteria for soft tissue sarcoma to help improve the diagnostic accuracy and overall outcome. Despite these guidelines inadvertent excisions of soft tissue sarcomas continue to occur with alarming frequency potentially compromising patient outcomes. We reviewed the East Midlands Sarcoma Service experience of treating inadvertent excision of STSs and highlight the patient profile, referral pattern, subsequent management and oncological outcome associated with inadvertent resection.Background
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