Amputation of the lower limb as palliative treatment for debilitating musculoskeletal cancer

Oncology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1059-1062

  Merimsky, O ^a,b   Kollender, Y ^a   Bickels, J ^a   Inbar, M ^a   Nirkin, A ^a   Isakov, J ^a   Chaitchik, S ^a   Meller, I ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SARCOMA;

EID: 0030797488     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.4.5.1059     Document Type: Article

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