Status of surgical margins and prognosis in adult soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities: A series of patients treated at a single institution

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 96-104

  Gronchi, Alessandro ^a   Casali, P G ^a   Mariani, L ^a   Miceli, R ^a   Fiore, M ^a   Lo Vullo, S ^a   Bertulli, R ^a   Collini, P ^a   Lozza, L ^a   Olmi, P ^a   Rosai, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIMB TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; ARM; LEG; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; ARM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 16644391327     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.04.160     Document Type: Article

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