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Stage 3 benign and stage 1 malignant soft tissue lesions need wide excision. In this setting it is rare that a lesion does not involve the underlying bone with reactive tissues. Frequently lesions extend through the large vascular perforations into the bone itself. Often an end block wide excision of skin, subcutaneous tissue, tendons, and parts of various bones and joints leads to more disability than a partial amputation that would achieve the same wide margin.
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