Cost analysis of functional restoration surgery for extremity soft-tissue sarcoma

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 277-283

  Nelson, Andrew A ^b   Frassica, Frank J ^b   Gordon, Toby A ^b   Deune, E Gene ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONVALESCENCE; COST; DERMATOFIBROMA; ECONOMICS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIMB; LIPOSARCOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644859330     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000187140.83705.cf     Document Type: Article

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