Upper extremity limb salvage with microvascular reconstruction in patients with advanced sarcoma

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 400-408

  Kim, John Y ^a,b   Subramanian, Vairavan ^a,b   Yousef, Adel ^a,b   Rogers, Bruce A ^a,b   Robb, Geoffrey L ^a,b   Chang, David W ^a,b  

^a Univ TX M D Anderson Cancer Ctr ^*

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENNEKING SCORE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MICROVASCULAR FLAP RECONSTRUCTION; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS FLAP; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARM; CHILD; DERMATOFIBROMA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OSTEOSARCOMA; PLASTIC SURGERY; REOPERATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ARM; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OSTEOSARCOMA; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 4344660282     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000131987.40578.7B     Document Type: Article

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