Clinical significance of a wide excision policy for sacrococcygeal chordoma

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 213-218

  Osaka, Shunzo ^a   Kodoh, Osamu ^a   Sugita, Hideyuki ^a   Osaka, Eiji ^a   Yoshida, Yoshiyuki ^a   Ryu, Junnosuke ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chordoma; Outcome; Sacrococcyx; Wide excision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACROCOCCYX CHORDOMA; SACROCOCCYX TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CHORDOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31344460101     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00432-005-0067-3     Document Type: Article

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