Case report: Elevated serum beta human chorionic gonadotropin in a woman with osteosarcoma

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 997-1001

  Tuy, Benjamin E ^a   Obafemi, Abimbola A ^a   Beebe, Kathleen S ^a   Patterson, Francis R ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSARCOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; AMPUTATION; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; FEMUR TUMOR; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY TEST; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FEMORAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; OSTEOSARCOMA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TESTS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 43349100012     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-008-0173-z     Document Type: Article

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