## Background. Children with malignant liver tumors often present with unresectable disease but need not be considered incurable. The advent of effective chemotherapy makes aggressive management feasible, as our experience with three such patients demonstrates. Procedure and Results. One child with
Experience with extendable prostheses for malignant bone tumors in children
β Scribed by Yukihiro Yoshida; Shunzo Osaka; Yasuaki Tokuhashi
- Book ID
- 116647646
- Publisher
- Chinese Electronic Periodical Services
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Volume
- 110
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0929-6646
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