Soft tissue sarcoma of the extremity and trunk: Issues for the general surgeon

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 665-671

  Wells, Gerame ^a   Martin, Robert C G ^a   Mcmasters, Kelly M ^a   Scoggins, Charles R ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISSEMINATED CANCER; EWING SARCOMA; EXCISION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIMB TUMOR; LIPOSARCOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MESENCHYME; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SALVAGE THERAPY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX CANCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY; BIOPSY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LIMB; REVIEW; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR;

BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747858088     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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