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Table 1 Summary of the clinical features of previously reported 102 LGMS cases and the present case

From: Low-grade myofibroblastic sarcoma of the levator scapulae muscle: a case report and literature review

Authors

Case

Age

Sex

(M:F)

Size (cm)

Infiltrative pattern

EM

Treatment

FU (months)

LR

Oncological outcome

Mentzel et al. [1]

18

42

(19–72)

11:7

4.0

(1.4–17)

Yes (12)

No (6)

Yes (4)

No (14)

E (10)

WE (2)

E + RT (2)

E + CTX (1)

E + CRT (1)

N/A (2)

35.9

(10–151)

Yes (3)

No (8)

N/A (7)

CDF (8)

NED (2)

AWD (1)

N/A (7)

Montgomery et al. [3]

10

54.4

(28–73)

8:2

4.7

(1.5–12)

Mostly

Yes (6)

No (4)

E (6)

WE (1)

E + RT (1)

WE+RT (1)

N/A (1)

48.1

(4–172)

Yes (4)

No (5)

N/A (1)

CDF (4)

NED (2)

N/A (4)

Meng et al. [29]

3

34

(14–74)

3:0

4.2

(3–5)

Yes (3)

Yes (1)

No (2)

E + RT (3)

21.3

(16–27)

Yes (3)

NED (3)

Meng et al. [9]

14

30.5

(7–53)

9:5

4.6

(2.0–15.0)

N/A (14)

Yes (1)

No (13)

E (8)

E + CTX (4)

E + RT (2)

28.3

(20–46)

Yes (5)

No (8)

N/A (1)

CDF (8)

NED (5)

N/A (1)

Cai et al. [23]

9

43.9

(6–73)

6:3

2.7

(1.5–5.0)

N/A (9)

No (9)

Scraped (1)

E (3)

E + RT (1)

WE + RT (3)

Lobectomy (1)

28.6

(11–44)

Yes (1)

No (7)

N/A (1)

CDF (7)

NED (1)

N/A (1)

Others [4, 6,7,8, 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22, 24,25,26,27,28, 30, 31, 33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51]

48

43.8

(2–74)

23:25

4.1

(0.4–22)

Yes (28)

No (2)

N/A (18)

Yes (10)

No (38)

E (18)

E + RT (1)

WE (21)

WE+CTX (2)

WE+RT (2)

CRT (1)

Others (2)

N/A (1)

21.3

(6–72)

Yes (8)

No (36)

N/A (4)

CDF (36)

NED (6)

DOD (5)

N/A (1)

Present case

1

69

female

3.5

Yes

No

WE

96

No

CDF

  1. LGMS Low-grade myofibroblastic sarcoma, M Male, F Female, N/A Not applicable, EM Electron microscopy, E Excision, WE Wide excision, CTX Chemotherapy, RT Radiotherapy, CRT Chemo-radiotherapy, LR Local recurrence, CDF Continuous disease free, NED No evidence of disease, AWD Alive with disease, DOD Death of disease