Painful swollen leg - Think beyond deep vein thrombosis or Baker's cyst

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Arumilli, Buchi R B ^a   Babu, Vinayagam Lenin ^a   Paul, Ashok S ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG PAIN; LEG SWELLING; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOSARCOMA; MYXOSARCOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPLITEAL CYST; REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; ARTICLE; LEG; LIPOSARCOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE TUMOR; SARCOMA; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE NEOPLASMS; POPLITEAL CYST; SARCOMA; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 39449134475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-6-6     Document Type: Review

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