Complications of combined modality treatment of primary lower extremity soft-tissue sarcomas

Cancer

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2455-2461

  Cannon, Christopher P ^a   Ballo, Matthew T ^a   Zagars, Gunar K ^a   Mirza, Attiqa N ^a   Lin, Patrick P ^a   Lewis, Valerae O ^a   Yasko, Alan W ^a   Benjamin, Robert S ^a   Pisters, Peter W T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractures; Radiation; Soft tissue sarcomas; Wound complications

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LEG DISEASE; LEG FRACTURE; LIMB TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; THIGH; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33750986808     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22298     Document Type: Review

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