Local control and survival in patients with soft tissue sarcomas treated with limb sparing surgery in combination with interstitial brachytherapy and external radiation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 382-387

  Muhic, Aida ^a   Hovgaard, Dorrit ^a   Mørk Petersen, Michael ^a   Daugaard, Søren ^a   Højlund Bech, Birthe ^a   Roed, Henrik ^a   Kjær Kristoffersen, Flemming ^a   Aage Engelholm, Svend ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Interstitial brachytherapy; Soft tissue sarcomas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIMB PAIN; LIMB SURGERY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 52049121820     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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