Haemorrhage,as an Oncologic emergency in Recurrent Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Abstract

Malignant tumours may present as surgical  emergency and require immediate intervention. obstruction, perforation and bleeding are the common surgical  Oncologic emergencies.They may present initially, during treatment or later after treatment as emergency. We present two patients of recurrent extremity soft tissue sarcoma  presented  with life threatening haemorrhage during a period of five months     (nov 2016 to mar 2017). Emergency amputation was done for both the patients to save their life.Key wordss soft tissue sarcoma,recurrence,haemorrhage,emergency amputation.IntroductionTheincidenceof cancer is  increasing and is becoming the common cause of death. Sarcomas arise from mesenchymal cells. sarcoma accounts for 1% of the cancers in adults and 15% of cancers in childhood, but remain life threatening(1).Soft tissue sarcoma,when diagnosed early is eminently curable and when diagnosed at the time of extensive local or metastatic disease it is rarely curable. Soft tissue sarcoma can occur in any site throught the body.extremities are the common site