Connective Tissue Oncology Society

2001 CTOS Annual Meeting—Posters

Surgery

Grimer	RISK OF AMPUTATION FOLLOWING LIMB SALVAGE SURGERY WITH ENDOPROSTHETIC REPLACEMENT
Malawer	RECONSTRUCTION FOLLOWING TOTAL SCAPULAR RESECTION: ANALYSIS OF HUMERAL SUSPENSION VERSUS ENDOPROSTHETIC RECONSTRUCTION
Malawer	EXTENSILE EXPOSURE OF THE AXILLA
Malawer	ENCHONDROMA OF THE HAND: MANAGEMENT WITH CURETTAGE AND CEMENTED INTRAMEDULLARY HARDWARE
Malawer	DISTAL FEMUR RESECTION WITH ENDOPROSTHETIC RECONSTRUCTION: A LONG TERM FOLLOW-UP STUDY
Malawer	CONSTRAINED (ROTATOR CUFF SUBSTITUTING) TOTAL SCAPULA PROSTHESIS: “ANATOMIC” APPROACH FOR RECONSTRUCTING THE SHOULDER GIRDLE FOLLOWING HIGH-GRADE SARCOMA RESECTION
Malawer	OSTEOSARCOMA OF THE PROXIMAL HUMERUS: LONG TERM RESULTS WITH LIMB SPARING SURGERY
van Coevorden	ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA: A REPORT OF 15 CASES
Eilber	SURGICAL RESECTION, VASCULAR RECONSTRUCTION, AND POSTOPERATIVE RADIATION FOR LEIOMYOSARCOMA OF THE INFERIOR VENA CAVA
Henshaw	LIMB-SPARING ENDOPROSTHETIC RECONSTRUCTION FOLLOWING MAJOR ONCOLOGIC MUSCULOSKELETAL RESECTIONS: IMPROVED LONG TERM RESULTS AND QUALITY OF LIFE WITH A MODULAR SYSTEM
Henshaw	REGIONAL POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA VIA INDWELLING EPINEURAL CATHETERS FOLLOWING MAJOR LIMB SPARING RESECTIONS AND AMPUTATIONS: ANALYSIS OF 166 PATIENTS
Wittig	THE CONCEPT OF A GLUTEAL (BUTTOCK) COMPARTMENT: RADIOPATHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS, INDICATIONS, AND SURGICAL TECHNIQUE OF RESECTION
Gerrand	THE INFLUENCE OF ANATOMICAL LOCATION ON OUTCOME IN EXTREMITY SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA
Kraybill	EXCISIONAL BIOPSY PRIOR TO WIDE RESECTION OF EXTREMITY SARCOMA IS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVED OUTCOME
de Gara	THE VALUE OF POPULATION BASED RESEARCH IN SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA (STS)
Donthineni-Rao	ATYPICAL LIPOMAS OF THE EXTREMITIES
Baratti	EPITHELIOID SARCOMA: CLINICAL BEHAVIOUR OF A RARE SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA
Gronchi	TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN EXTRA-ABDOMINAL AGGRESSIVE FIBROMATOSIS TREATED AT A SINGLE INSTITUTION: AN ANALYSIS OF OUTCOME
Scarborough	LONG TERM FOLLOW-UP OF STAGE IIB EXTREMITY OSTEOSARCOMA: THE EFFECT OF LOCAL TUMOR EXTENT ON PROGNOSIS
Wodajo	CLOSE SURGICAL MARGINS IN SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA RESECTION DO NOT PREDICT LOCAL RECURRENCE WHEN INDUCTION (NEOADJUVANT) CHEMOTHERAPY IS USED IN THE TREATMENT OF HIGH GRADE EXTREMITY SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA
Ballo	SPERMATIC CORD SARCOMA: OUTCOME, PATTERNS OF FAILURE AND MANAGEMENT
Heiner	NEOADJUVENT ADRIAMYCIN AND TWICE DAILY RADIOTHERAPY IN ADULT SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA
Izbicki	WHAT DOES THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF GISTS ? RESEARCH ON 18 PATIENTS WITH GISTS
Brady	ISOLATED LIMB INFUSION: A NOVEL TREATMENT FOR LOCALLY ADVANCED SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA OF THE EXTREMITY
Abudu	PREDICTIVE FACTORS FOR WOUND COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING FREE AND PEDICLED SOFT TISSUE FLAPS FOR LIMB RECONSTRUCTION AFTER EXCISION OF SOFT TISSUE TUMOURS
Abudu	THE INDICATIONS AND PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF AMPUTATION FOR SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA OF THE EXTREMITY
Wodajo	LOW DOSE RADIOTHERAPY AND STAGED SURGICAL RESECTION FOR DIFFUSE PIGMENTED VILLONODULAR SYNOVITIS OF THE KNEE PRESERVES NORMAL KNEE FUNCTION WITH MINIMAL RISK OF RECURRENCE
Sylvie	INTRAPERITONEAL CHEMOTHERAPY (IPC) AFTER COMPLETE RESECTION OF PERITONEAL SARCOMATOSIS (PS): RESULTS OF A MONOCENTRIC RANDOMIZED STUDY
Feig	IS THERE A ROLE FOR ISOLATED LIMB PERFUSION IN UNRESECTABLE EXTREMITY SARCOMAS?
Pisters	PHASE I TRIAL OF PREOPERATIVE DOXORUBICIN-BASED CONCURRENT CHEMORADIATION AND SURGICAL RESECTION FOR LOCALIZED, RESECTABLE EXTREMITY AND TRUNK SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS (STS)

Radiation Oncology

Robinson	USE OF INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT) IN THE TREATMENT OF SARCOMA
Koscielniak	INDICATIONS FOR RADIOTHERAPY AFTER NEAR COMPLETE RESECTION (MICROSCOPIC RESIDUAL DIESEASE, IRS GROUP II) IN RHABDOMYOSARCOMA: A REPORT FROM THE GERMAN SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA STUDY GROUP CWS
Haycocks	HIGH RESOLUTION, INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT) FOR RETROPERITONEAL SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA (RPS)
Suit	IRRADIATION OF THE DURA INTRA-OPERATIVELY BY CUSTOMIZED 90Y PLAQUES
DeLaney	NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIOTHERAPY FOR LARGE EXTREMITY SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS
Brockstein	RADIATION INDUCED LEIOMYOSARCOMA: A REPORT OF 3 CASES
Bell	MARROW STROMAL CELL TRANSPLANT IMPROVES WOUND HEALING FOLLWOING RADIATION
Hohenberger	A COMPARISON OF LOWER EXTREMITY FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME FOLLOWING LIMB PERFUSION, PRE- OR POST-OPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY FOR SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA

Pediatric Oncology

Wittig

FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED METASTASES IN HUMAN RHABDOMYOSARCOMA XENOGRAFT MODEL

Pathology

Priebat	EXPRESSION OF HER2/NEU (HER2) AND EGFR IN OSTEOSARCOMA (OS)
Thomas	HER2/ERBB2 EXPRESSION IN SYNOVIAL SARCOMA
Hogendoorn	DIAGNOSTIC IMPACT OF HISTOLOGIC PARAMETERS IN DIFFERENTIATING ENCHONDROMA FROM GRADE I CENTRAL CHONDROSARCOMA
Alvegård	TISSUE-ARRAY FOR IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL STUDIES IN SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA
Thomas	AUTOCRINE AND PARACRINE REGULATION OF METASTATIC GROWTH IN CANINE OSTEOSARCOMA

Medical Oncology

Bauer	THE SSG REGISTER - TOOL FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH
Kraybill	RTOG 95-14: A PHASE II STUDY OF NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY (CT) AND RADIATION THERAPY (RT) IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HIGH RISK, HIGH GRADE, SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS (STS) OF THE EXTREMITIES AND BODY WALL: A PRELIMINARY REPORT
Wodajo	SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF HIGH GRADE SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA WITH INDUCTION (NEOADJUVANT) CHEMOTHERAPY: CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THICK CAPSULE FORMATION ALLOWING LESS EXTENSIVE SURGICAL RESECTION
Okuno	A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF MAYO CLINIC'S PHASE II CLINICAL TRIALS OF ADVANCED SARCOMAS TO EXAMINE SURVIVAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LEIOMYOSARCOMAS OF THE GI ORIGIN (GIST) VERSUS NON-GI ORIGIN
Bellmunt	SEQUENTIAL HIGH-DOSE DOXORUBICIN (DX) AND HIGH-DOSE IFOSFAMIDE (IF) IN ADVANCED PREVIOUSLY UNTREATED SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS (STS). A MULTICENTER PHASE II STUDY OF THE SPANISH GROUP FOR RESEARCH ON SARCOMAS (GEIS)
Hogendoorn	ASSOCIATION BETWEEN BREAST CANCER AND CARTILAGINOUS TUMORS: PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF A HITHERTO UNRECOGNIZED POTENTIAL HEREDITARY TRAIT
Garcia del Muro	TEMOZOLOMIDE AS A 6-WEEK CONTINUOUS ORAL SCHEDULE IN ADVANCED SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA: A PHASE II TRIAL OF THE SPANISH GROUP FOR RESEARCH ON SARCOMAS (GEIS)
Smeland	AN OVERVIEW OF TREATMENTS RESULTS IN OSTEOSARCOMA: IS THERE A NEED FOR A GLOBAL COLLABORATION?
Donthineni-rao	FERTILITY IN YOUNG ADULTS FOLLOWING CHEMOTHERAPY FOR HIGH-GRADE BONE SARCOMAS
Toguchida	THE MUTATION ANALYSIS OF NFAT1 IN CHONDROSARCOMA
Toguchida	NOVEL TYPE OF EWS-CHOP FUSION GENE IN TWO CASES OF LIPOSARCOMAS WITH AGGRESSIVE CLINICAL FEATURES AND ATYPICAL HISTOPATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS
Peiper	PULMONARY METASTASIS IN STS
Streichert	THE IMMEDIATE RE-EXCISION OF SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS AFTER INADEQUATE INITIAL SURGERY
Judson	ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA IN ADULTS: ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL FEATURES AND TREATMENT OUTCOME IN 19 CASES
Gottschalk	NON-VIRAL GENE TRANSFER INTO HUMAN OSTEOSARCOMA CELLS USING THE NON-LIPOSOMAL LIPID EFFECTENE - A PRIMER FOR MALIGNANT BONE TUMOR GENE THERAPY STRATEGIES
Jimeno	ET-743, A NEW ACTIVE DRUG IN ADULT SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA: A SOFT-TISSUE AND BONE SARCOMA GROUP /EORTC PHASE II TRIAL

Biology

Henshaw	IS CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS CLINICALLY USEFUL? AN ANALYSIS OF 101 CONSECUTIVE CASES OF BENIGN AND MALIGNANT BONE AND SOFT TISSUE TUMORS OF THE EXTREMITIES
Mertens	MOLECULAR GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF FUSION GENES IN EXTRASKELETAL MYXOID CHONDROSARCOMAS
Skubitz	GENE EXPRESSION IN LIPOMA, HIBERNOMA, AND LIPOSARCOMA
Hogendoorn	HIGH QUALITY RNA ISOLATION FROM CHONDROSARCOMA; APPLICATION TO CDNA MICROARRAYS
Picci	IN VITRO EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ANTINEOPLASTIC DRUG ECTEINASCIDIN-743 ON SENSITIVE AND MULTIDRUG RESISTANT OSTEOSARCOMA CELLS
Di Renzo	ANCHORAGE INDEPENDENT GROWTH AND PROLONGED SURVIVAL OF PRIMARY HUMAN OSTEOBLASTS OVER-EXPRESSING THE MET RECEPTORS BY MEANS OF TRANSDUCTION WITH LENTIVIRAL VECTORS
Bramwell	EXPRESSION OF OSTEOPONTIN AND HGF/SF-MET IN ADULT SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA
Bridge	FUSION OF THE ALK GENE TO THE CLATHRIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE, CLTC, IN INFLAMMATORY MYOFIBROBLASTIC TUMOR
Khanna	EVALUATION OF EZRIN, A NOVEL DETERMINANT FOR METASTASIS IN OSTEOSARCOMA: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH
Bovee	CHROMOSOME 9 ALTERATIONS AND P16 EXPRESSION IN CENTRAL CHONDROSARCOMAS
Segal	CLASSIFICATION OF GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES IN ADULT SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA USING OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY ANALYSIS
Ladanyi	IMPACT OF SYT-SSX FUSION TYPE ON CLINICAL BEHAVIOR OF SYNOVIAL SARCOMA. A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL STUDY OF 243 PATIENTS
Wunder	COMPARISON OF P53 MUTATIONS IN LOCALIZED AND METASTATIC OSTEOSARCOMA
Gokgoz	GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES OF LOW GRADE AND HIGH GRADE MALIGNANT FIBRO HISTIOCYTOMAS USING MICROARRAY ANALYSIS
Hopyan	ENCHONDROMATOSIS CAUSED BY A MUTANT TYPE I PTH/PTHRP RECEPTOR

Diagnostic Radiology

Krarup-Hansen

IMAGE FUSION WITH PET AND MRI: A NEW MODALITY IN EVALUATION OF BONE AND SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA