Research Article
High-Grade Osteosarcoma of the Foot: Presentation, Treatment,
Prognostic Factors, and Outcome of 23 Cooperative
Osteosarcoma Study Group COSS Patients
Anne J. Schuster ,
1
Leo Kager,
2
Peter Reichardt,
3
Daniel Baumhoer,
4
MonikaCs´ oka,
5
Stefanie Hecker-Nolting,
1
Susanna Lang,
6
Sylvie Lorenzen,
7
Regine Mayer-Steinacker,
8
Thekla von Kalle,
9
Matthias Kevric,
1
Mathias Werner,
3
Reinhard Windhager ,
10
Thomas Wirth,
11
and Stefan S. Bielack
1,12
1
Center for Pediatric, Adolescent and Women’s Medicine, Olgahospital, Department of Pediatrics 5 (Oncology, Hematology,
Immunology), Klinikum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2
St. Anna Children’s Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, Medical University of Vienna and
Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI), Vienna, Austria
3
Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology, HELIOS Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany
4
Bone Tumour Reference Centre (BTRC), Institute of Pathology, University Hospital of Basel and University of Basel,
Basel, Switzerland
5
2nd Department of Pediatrics, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
6
Department of Pathology, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
7
Department of Hematology and Oncology, Klinikum rechts der Isar Technische Universit¨ at M¨ unchen, Munich, Germany
8
Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
9
Center for Pediatric, Adolescent and Women’s Medicine, Olgahospital, Department of Pediatric Radiology, Klinikum Stuttgart,
Stuttgart, Germany
10
Department of Orthopaedics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
11
Center for Pediatric, Adolescent and Women’s Medicine, Olgahospital, Department of Pediatrics,
Division of Pediatric Orthopedics, Klinikum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
12
Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Children’s Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
Correspondence should be addressed to Anne J. Schuster; anne.schuster@klinikum-stuttgart.de
Received 21 November 2017; Revised 15 February 2018; Accepted 18 March 2018; Published 2 May 2018
Academic Editor: Valerae O. Lewis
Copyright © 2018 Anne J. Schuster et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is
properly cited.
Osteosarcoma of the foot is a very rare presentation of a rare tumor entity. In a retrospective analysis, we investigated tumor- and
treatment-related variables and outcome of patients registered in the Cooperative Osteosarcoma Study Group (COSS) database
between January 1980 and April 2016 who suffered from primary high-grade osteosarcoma of the foot. Among the 23 eligible
patients, median age was 32 years (range: 6–58 years), 10 were female, and 13 were male. e tarsus was the most commonly
affected site (n � 16). ree patients had primary metastases. All patients were operated: 5 underwent primary surgery and 18
received surgery following preoperative chemotherapy. In 21 of the 23 patients, complete surgical remission was achieved. In 4 of
17 patients, a poor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy was observed in the resected primary tumors. Median follow-up was
4.2 years (range: 0.4–18.5). At the last follow-up, 15 of the 23 patients were alive and 8 had died. Five-year overall and event-free
survival estimates were 64% (standard error (SE) 12%) and 54% (SE 13%), which is similar to that observed for osteosarcoma in
general. Event-free and overall survival correlated with primary metastatic status and completeness of surgery. Our findings show
that high-grade osteosarcoma in the foot has a similar outcome as osteosarcoma of other sites.
Hindawi
Sarcoma
Volume 2018, Article ID 1632978, 11 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/1632978