Malignant vascular tumors: Clinical presentation, surgical therapy, and long-term prognosis

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1090-1101

  Leowardi, Christine ^a   Hinz, Ulf ^a   Hormann, Yura ^a   Wente, Moritz N ^a   Mechtersheimer, Gunhild ^a   Willeke, Frank ^b   Böckler, Dittmar ^a   Friess, Helmut ^a   Allenberg, Jens Rainer ^a   Herfarth, Christian ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Schwarzbach, Matthias H M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Malignant vascular tumors; Multivariate analysis; Prognostic factors; Survival; Univariate analysis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HUMAN; LIMB; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPHANGIOSARCOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN; PROGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEUM; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THYROID GLAND; TRUNK; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VASCULAR TUMOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA, EPITHELIOID; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 27844467683     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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