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Orthopaedic surgeons have been known to be highly intelligent, but even they cannot successfully treat primary pelvic sarcomas alone. As highlighted in the previous chapters, the multidisciplinary treatment of these tumours is of utmost importance: chemotherapy has been shown to be a prerequisite for survival in patients with osteosarcomas and Ewing sarcomas, and radiotherapy can improve the outcome in at least some patients with Ewing sarcoma, while none of us would ever perform surgery for pelvic chondrosarcoma without adequate imaging. Based on several examples, this chapter tries to underline the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to pelvic tumours.
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Leithner, A., Bergovec, M., Andreou, D. (2021). The Importance of a Multidisciplinary Approach to Pelvic Tumours. In: Ruggieri, P., Angelini, A. (eds) Surgery of Pelvic Bone Tumors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77007-5_22
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