Pre-operative core biopsy of soft-tissue tumours facilitates their surgical management

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 345-349

  Serpell, Jonathan W ^a,c   Pitcher, Meron E ^b  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c CABRINI INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Core biopsy; Excisional biopsy; Incisional biopsy; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SURGICAL WOUND; TUMOR BIOPSY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031799974     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1998.tb04769.x     Document Type: Article

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