Reassessment of the 1993 Osaka grading system for localized soft tissue sarcoma in Japan

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 6 C, 2006, Pages 4665-4669

  Tomita, Yasuhiko ^a   Morooka, Takaya ^a   Hoshida, Yoshihiko ^a   Zhang, Binglin ^a   Qiu, Ying ^a   Nakamichi, Itsuko ^a   Hamada, Kenichiro ^a   Ueda, Takafumi ^a   Naka, Norifumi ^b   Kudawara, Ikuo ^c   Aozasa, Katsuyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases   (Japan)

^c OSAKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argyrophilic nucleolar organizer region; Prognosis; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARGYROPHILIA; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITOSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33845933502     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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