Impact of the smallest surgical margin on local control in soft tissue sarcoma

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-243

  Sampo, M ^a,b   Tarkkanen, M ^b   Huuhtanen, R ^b   Tukiainen, E ^b   Bohling T ^a   Blomqvist, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; AMPUTATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE TUMOR; LIMB; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOMA; STATISTICS; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, CONNECTIVE TISSUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349147079     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.5906     Document Type: Article

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