A probabilistic analysis of completely excised high-grade soft tissue sarcomas of the extremity: An application of a Bayesian belief network

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2992-3001

  Forsberg, Jonathan Agner ^a,b   Healey, John H ^c,d   Brennan, Murray F ^c,d  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BONE RESECTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; ROC CURVE; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84867405456     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2345-z     Document Type: Article

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