Association of rib anomalies and childhood cancers

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1392-1395

  Zierhut, H ^a   Murati, M ^b   Holm, T ^b   Hoggard, E ^b   Spector, L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

childhood cancer; congenital anomalies; rib anomalies

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; BRAIN CANCER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CERVICAL RIB; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TUMOR; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; RIB MALFORMATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SPINE CANCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL ABNORMALITIES; NEOPLASMS; RIBS;

EID: 80054995022     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.366     Document Type: Article

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