The development of bone metastases as the first sign of metastatic spread in patients with primary solid tumours

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 102-105

  Papadakis, S A ^a,c   Mitsitsikas, T C ^a   Markakidis, S ^a   Minas, M K ^a   Tripsiannis, G ^b   Tentes, A A ^a  

^a General Hospital of Didimoticho   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 2142761639     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-003-0532-z     Document Type: Article

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