Evaluation Of Demographic And Clinicopathological Characteristics Of Osteosarcoma Patients

INTRODUCTION: It is aimed that a retrospective analysis of 122 patients who were diagnosed with osteosarcoma and underwent surgical treatment between January 2002 and January 2015 at the Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic of our Hospital. METHODS: Total of 122 patients (81 males, 41 females) were included in the study. All data were retrospectively and completely evaluated, 95,9% of the patients were operated, 72,7% of these patients, had limb salvage surgery and 27,3% had amputation. RESULTS: The mean age was 23.9 years (range 7-82 years), 50% of the patients were between 11 and 20 years of age and 66.3% of them were located in the knee (50.8% distal femur and 15.5% proximal tibia). At the time of diagnosis, 59% of cases were found to be Enneking Stage 2B. The most common tumor type was conventional osteosarcoma. DISCUSSION: When we examined the cases of osteosarcoma which diagnosed in our hospital, the distribution and features of tumor was similar to other cases that is in other hospitals in our country and the world literature.