Pediatric soft tissue sarcomas

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 470-488

  Stein Wexler, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPITHELIOID SARCOMA; EWING SARCOMA; FIBROSARCOMA; GRANULOCYTIC SARCOMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HUMAN; LIMB TUMOR; LIPOSARCOMA; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT CANCER; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80053412443     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: 15585034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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