Proximal femoral replacements for metastatic bone disease: Financial implications for sarcoma units

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 709-713

  Ashford, Robert U ^b   Hanna, Sammy A ^a   Park, Derek H ^a   Pollock, Rob C ^a   Skinner, John A ^a   Briggs, Timothy W R ^a   Cannon, Stephen R ^a  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Infirmary Square   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD PROSTHESIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOLOGY WARD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RECTUM CANCER; REIMBURSEMENT; SARCOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; COST; ECONOMICS; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR TUMOR; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP PROSTHESIS; LENGTH OF STAY; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMORAL NEOPLASMS; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; SARCOMA;

EID: 77955969040     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-009-0838-6     Document Type: Article

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