Survival of Modern Knee Tumor Megaprostheses: Failures, Functional Results, and a Comparative Statistical Analysis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 473, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 891-899

  Pala, Elisa ^a   Trovarelli, Giulia ^a   Calabrò, Teresa ^a   Angelini, Andrea ^a   Abati, Caterina N ^a   Ruggieri, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929103117     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-014-3699-2     Document Type: Article

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