Clinical and functional outcomes of patients with a pathologic fracture in high-grade osteosarcoma

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 120-124

  Ferguson, Peter C ^a   Mclaughlin, Catherine E ^a   Griffin, Anthony M ^a   Bell, Robert S ^a   Deheshi, Benjamin M ^a   Wunder, Jay S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fracture; Functional outcome; Osteosarcoma; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; LIMB FRACTURE; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; OSTEOSARCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OSTEOSARCOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 77955103091     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21542     Document Type: Article

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