Incidence and Severity of Lymphoedema following Limb Salvage of Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Table 2

Patient demographics and tumor and clinical characteristics in relation to lymphoedema severity.

Variable (𝑁)	Lymphoedema <2	Lymphoedema ≥2
Age at surgery (288)
Mean	52	58
Range	16–86	19–88
Gender (288)
Male	144	14
Female	119	11
Presenting status (288)
Primary	249	24
Local recurrence	12	1
Unplanned	2	0
Extremity (288)
Upper	59	22
Lower	204	3
Tumor size (288) [cm]
Mean	7.1	11.4
Range	1.0–35.6	4.5–20.5
Tumor depth (288)
Superficial	78	0
Deep	185	25
AJCC Stage (272)
IA	42	0
IB	18	0
IIA	63	8
IIB	52	2
IIC	12	1
III	62	12