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Table 3 Major wound complications for lower extremities stratified by the timing of the treatment

From: Postoperative complications and oncologic outcomes after multimodal therapy of localized high risk soft tissue sarcoma

 

Neoadjuvant therapy (n = 24)

Adjuvant therapy (n = 15)

Significance

Patients with MWC

11 (45.8%)

3 (20.0%)

p = 0.097

Total number of MWCs

27

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  Wound healing disorder

8 (33.3%)

2 (13.3%)

p = 0.155

  Wound infection

8 (33.3%)

0 (0.0%)

p = 0.012

  Abscess

2 (8.3%)

0 (0.0%)

p = 0.372

  Postoperative seroma

3 (12.5%)

1 (6.7%)

p = 0.498

  Postoperative hematoma

2 (8.3%)

0 (0.0%)

p = 0.372

  Fistula

4 (16.7%)

0 (0.0%)

p = 0.129

  1. Bold text significant values or trend to significance