Analysis of surgical and oncological outcome in internal and external hemipelvectomy in 34 patients above the age of 65 years at a mean follow-up of 56 months

Table 3 Overview of patient characteristics, oncological outcome

Case	Metastasis at operation	Margin	Local recurr. (months)	Distant metastasis after first operation (months)	Time to death after distant metastasis (months)	Cause of death	Death at month after last major operation	Alive at month	Function
1	N	1 I	N			-	-	60	CR
2	N	0 W	31			DOD	38	-
3†	Y	0 NA	N			surg.	0	-
4	Y	0 R	N			DOD	1	-
5†	N	0 W	N	3	0	post surg.	2	-
6	N	0 W	N			-	-	166	WC
7	N	0 W	N	3,5	0	DOD	1	-
8	Y	0 W	N			DOD	24	-
9	N	0 R	N			DOD	1	-
10	N	0 R	N	3	-	-	-	64	NA
11	N	0 R	N			DOD	40	-
12	N	0 W	N			-	-	22	WC/CR
13	N	1 I	N			-	-	80	WC/CR
14†	N	0 R	N			post surg.	1	-
15	N	0 W	N			-	-	87	WC/CR
16	Y	0 W	N			other	82	-
17	N	0 M	N			other	40	-
18	N	0 M	N			other	95	-
19	N	0 W	N			-	-	38	WC/CR
20	N	0 W	N			DOD	7	-
21	N	0 W	N			NA	15	-
22	N	0 W	N			-	-	57	NA
23	Y	1 I	N			DOD	12	-
24	N	0 M	N			DOD	7	-
25	N	0 W	N			NA	6	-
26	N	0 M	N			other	4	-
27	Y	0 M	N			DOD	9	-
28	N	1 I	11	11	8	DOD	18	-
29	N	0 W	N	41	8,5	DOD	48	-
30	Y	0 W	35			DOD	48	-
31	Y	0 W	N			-	-	19	WF
32	Y	0 R	N			DOD	3	-
33	N	0 W	N			-	-	15	B/WC
34	N	0 W	N			-	-	7	WC/CR

Abbreviations:† = death on hospital ward, Y = Yes, N = No, R = radical, W = wide, M = marginal, I = intralesional, DOD = Dead of Disease, surg. = surgery, post surg. = post operation on ward, other = other cause of death, CR = crutches/cane, WC = wheelchair, WF = ambulating without walking aid, B = bed-ridden.