Is routine chest radiography a useful test in the follow up of all adult patients with soft tissue sarcoma?

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue 946, 2006, Pages 799-800

  Lord, H K ^a   Salter, D M ^b   MacDougall, R H ^a   Kerr, G R ^a  

^a Edinburgh Cancer Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; ARTICLE; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SARCOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA;

EID: 33750115358     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/69175634     Document Type: Review

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