Tissue components of weight loss in cancer patients. A new method of study and preliminary observations

Cancer

Volumn 55, Issue 1 S, 1985, Pages 238-249

  Heymsfield, Steven B ^a   McManus, Clifford B ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; CACHEXIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCLES; MYOCARDIUM; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PILOT PROJECTS; SPLEEN; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0021981848     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19850101)55:1+<238::AID-CNCR2820551306>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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