Preoperative core biopsy of soft tissue tumours facilitates their surgical management: A 10-year update

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 977-981

  Woon, Dixon T S ^a   Serpell, Jonathan W ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Core biopsy; Excisional biopsy; Incisional biopsy; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54349098061     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2008.04715.x     Document Type: Article

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