Combined modality treatment of extremity soft tissue sarcomas

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 464-472

  Pisters, Peter W T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIMB TUMOR; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031819141     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02303867     Document Type: Review

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