Prophylactic and Therapeutic Fixation of Weight-Bearing Long Bones with Metastatic Cancer

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 394-396

  Ampil, Federico L ^a   Sadasivan, Kalia K ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TIBIA FRACTURE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0035318695     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200104000-00007     Document Type: Article

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