Radiotherapy in soft tissue sacoma of the extremities

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica, Supplement

Volumn 68, Issue 273, 1997, Pages 112-116

  Ngan, Samuel Y ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LIMB TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; LIMB; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; WOUND HEALING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031068569     PISSN: 03008827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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