Evaluation of the Patient With Carcinoma of Unknown Origin Metastatic to Bone

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 415, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Rougraff, Bruce T ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANAMNESIS; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BONE BIOPSY; BONE METASTASIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE REMODELING; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142157083     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000093049.96273.e3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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