Limb salvage surgery for children and adolescents with malignant bone tumors in a developing country

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 787-791

  Haidar, Rachid ^a   Sagghieh, Said ^a   Muwakkit, Samar ^a   Mumtaz, Ghina ^a   Akel, Samir ^a   Kamzoul, Rami ^a   Farah, Roula ^b   Noun, Peter ^c   Khalifeh, Hassan ^d   Farhat, Fadi ^e   Razzouk, Bassem ^f   Galindo, Carlos Rodriguez ^g   Rao, Bhaskar ^g   Abboud, Miguel R ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b SAINT GEORGE HOSPITAL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Lebanon)

^c Neuroscience Department   (Canada)

^d RAFIC HARIRI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Lebanon)

^e Hammoud Hospital   (Lebanon)

^f St Vincent Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases   (United States)

^g ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone tumors; Ewing sarcoma; Limb salvage surgery; Osteosarcoma; Repiphysis prosthesis

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE ALLOGRAFT; BONE CANCER; BONE NECROSIS; BONE PROSTHESIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LEBANON; LEG LENGTHENING; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OSTEOSARCOMA; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT FAILURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE LENGTHENING; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; OSTEOSARCOMA; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56849116834     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21696     Document Type: Article

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