Bone tumours in Cameroon: Incidence, demography and histopathology

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 315-317

  Bahebeck, J ^a   Atangana, R ^b   Eyenga, V ^b   Pisoh, A ^a   Sando, Z ^c   Hoffmeyer, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b YAOUNDÉ GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

^c CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; BONE METASTASIS; BONE TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CAMEROON; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EWING SARCOMA; FIBROSARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; THYROID CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0242299154     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-003-0480-7     Document Type: Article

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