Late treatment-related complications in 214 patients with extremity soft-tissue sarcoma treated by surgery and postoperative radiation therapy

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 230-234

  Livi, Lorenzo ^a   Santoni, Riccardo ^c   Paiar, Fabiola ^a   Bastiani, Paolo ^a   Beltrami, Giovanni ^b   Caldora, Patrizio ^b   Capanna, Rodolfo ^b   De Biase, Pietro ^b   Detti, Beatrice ^a   Fondelli, Simona ^a   Meldolesi, Elisa ^a   Pertici, Maurizio ^a   Polli, Caterina ^a   Simontacchi, Gabriele ^a   Biti, Gianpaolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; External beam radiation therapy; Severe morbidity; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HUMAN; LIMB TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; SKIN ULCER; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; WOUND; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 31444442159     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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