The treatment for patients who have locally recurrent soft tissue sarcoma of the extremity after surgery and radiation therapy is primarily amputation. A second course of radiation and local excision is usually not considered because of two major concerns: radiation complications and inability to ac
A comparison of staging systems for localized extremity soft tissue sarcoma
β Scribed by Jay S. Wunder; John H. Healey; Aileen M. Davis; Murray F. Brennan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 124 KB
- Volume
- 88
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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