The treatment of lower extremity sarcomas with wide excision, radiotherapy, and free-flap reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 96-101

  Hidalgo, David A ^a   Carrasquillo, Ines M ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LEG DISEASE; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SARCOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DERMATOFIBROMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0026554981     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199289010-00019     Document Type: Article

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