Walking ability and activities of daily living after limb salvage operations for malignant bone and soft-tissue tumors of the lower limbs

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 131-134

  Sugiura, H ^a   Katagiri, H ^a   Yonekawa, M ^a   Sato, K ^b   Yamamura, S ^b   Iwata, H ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; LEG; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUES; SALVAGE THERAPY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; WALKING;

EID: 0035108281     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004020000192     Document Type: Article

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