Limb conservation in extremity soft tissue sarcomas with vascular involvement

Indian Journal of Orthopaedics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 403-407

  Ramamurthy, Rajaraman ^a   Soundrarajan, Jagadish Chandra Bose ^a   Mettupalayam, Viswanathan ^a   Shanmugham, Subbiah ^a   Arumugam, Balasubramanian ^a   Periasamy, Saravanan ^a  

^a Department of Ophthalmology   (India)

Author keywords

Limb salvage surgery; Major vascular infiltration in sarcomas; Vessel reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349902795     PISSN: 00195413     EISSN: 19983727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5413.54969     Document Type: Article

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