Research Article
Oncological Treatment Considerations Differ across Surgical Subspecialties Treating Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors: An International Survey
Table 1
Demographical data of survey respondents.
| Variable (N) | Oncologic surgery | Neurosurgery | Plastic surgery | Other specialties | | 30 | 30 | 85 | 29 |
| Experience | | | | | | Mean (SD) | 15.64 (9.31) | 13.26 (8.64) | 13.49 (9.81) | 15.64 (10.13) | 0.603 | <10 years | 28.6% | 37.0% | 43.1% | 36.0% | 0.585 | 10–20 years | 50.0% | 37.0% | 34.7% | 28.0% | >20 years | 21.4% | 25.9% | 22.2% | 36.0% |
| Fellowship training | | | | | | Sarcoma | 81.5% | 0.0% | 2.8% | 8.0% | <0.001 | PNS | 0.0% | 55.6% | 29.2% | 56.0% | Sarcoma & PNS | 3.7% | 0.0% | 2.8% | 0.0% | Other or none | 14.8% | 44.4% | 65.3% | 36.0% |
| Annual caseload | | | | | | 0-1 | 18.5% | 50.0% | 70.4% | 66.7% | <0.001 | 2-3 | 22.2% | 34.6% | 22.5% | 12.5% | 3–5 | 33.3% | 15.4% | 2.8% | 12.5% | >5 | 25.9% | 0.0% | 4.2% | 8.3% |
| Tumor sites operated | | | | | | Intracranial | 0.0% | 34.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | <0.001 | Head & neck | 18.5% | 42.3% | 14.1% | 8.3% | 0.007 | (Para)spinal | 22.2% | 76.9% | 1.4% | 4.2% | <0.001 | Superficial thoracic | 55.6% | 34.6% | 8.5% | 8.3% | <0.001 | Intrathoracic | 37.0% | 15.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | <0.001 | Abdominal | 74.1% | 23.1% | 5.6% | 4.2% | <0.001 | Retroperitoneal | 74.1% | 46.2% | 4.2% | 0.0% | <0.001 | Pelvic | 81.5% | 38.5% | 1.4% | 8.3% | <0.001 | Extremities | 85.2% | 84.6% | 93.0% | 75.0% | 0.136 | Brachial plexus | 37.0% | 65.4% | 35.2% | 41.7% | 0.059 |
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N: number, PNS: peripheral nerve surgery, SD: standard deviation.
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