Outcome of lower extremity malignancy survivors treated with transfemoral amputation

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 177-182

  Hoffman, R Dow ^a   Saltzman, Charles L ^a   Buckwalter, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amputation; Leg; Neoplasms; Outcome assessment (health care); Rehabilitation; Retrospective studies

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHONDROSARCOMA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EMPLOYMENT; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GIANT CELL CARCINOMA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; LEG DISEASE; LEG PROSTHESIS; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; OSTEOSARCOMA; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TOBACCO; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036161519     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/apmr.2002.27461     Document Type: Article

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