The Bt-DUX: Development of a subjective measure of health-related quality of life in patients who underwent surgery for lower extremity malignant bone tumor

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 348-355

  Bekkering, W Peter ^a   Vliet Vlieland, Theodora P M ^a   Koopman, Hendrik M ^a   Schaap, Gerard R ^b   Schreuder, H W Bart ^c   Beishuizen, Auke ^d   Tissing, Wim J E ^e   Hoogerbrugge, Peter M ^c   Anninga, Jacob K ^a   Taminiau, Antonie H M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Extremity bone tumors; Quality of life; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALLOGRAFT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BT DUX; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FEMUR; FIBULA; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; TIBIA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651236109     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22078     Document Type: Article

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