Relationship between height at diagnosis and bone tumours in young people: A meta-analysis

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 681-688

  Arora, Ramandeep S ^a   Kontopantelis, Evangelos ^a   Alston, Robert D ^a   Eden, Tim O ^a   Geraci, Marco ^b   Birch, Jillian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body height; Ewing sarcoma; Growth; Meta analysis; Osteosarcoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE GROWTH; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBASE; EWING SARCOMA; HUMAN; MEDLINE; OSTEOSARCOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REFERENCE VALUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; BONE NEOPLASMS; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OSTEOSARCOMA; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955764624     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-011-9740-9     Document Type: Article

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