Prediction of pathologic fracture risk of the femur after combined modality treatment of soft tissue sarcoma of the thigh

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1553-1559

  Gortzak, Yair ^a,b,c   Lockwood, Gina A ^b   Mahendra, Ashish ^a,b   Wang, Ying ^b   Chung, Peter W M ^d   Catton, Charles N ^d   O'Sullivan, Brian ^d   Deheshi, Benjamin M ^a,b   Wunder, Jay S ^a,b   Ferguson, Peter C ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Femur; Fracture prediction; Nomogram; Radiation; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; LIMB TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; THIGH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOMOGRAMS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THIGH;

EID: 77949361014     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24949     Document Type: Article

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