Incomplete excisions of extremity soft tissue sarcomas are unaffected by insurance status or distance from a sarcoma center

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 477-480

  Alamanda, Vignesh K ^a   Delisca, Gadini O ^a   Archer, Kristin R ^a   Song, Yanna ^a   Schwartz, Herbert S ^a   Holt, Ginger E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

insurance status; patient distance; soft tissue sarcoma; unplanned excision and incomplete excision of STS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIMB TUMOR; LIPOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

INSURANCE STATUS; PATIENT DISTANCE; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; UNPLANNED EXCISION AND INCOMPLETE EXCISION OF STS;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LEG; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887163057     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.23427     Document Type: Article

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