Local recurrence of soft tissue sarcoma following brachytherapy
β Scribed by Denise R. Trowbridge; Linda S. Gemer; James Neff; Fritz Lin; Eashwer Reddy; Richard Evans; Ruth Hassanein
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 246 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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## Abstract Local recurrence following the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma has been long recognized as a grave prognostic sign. Nevertheless, many investigators have recently suggested that local recurrence following limited surgery (βlocal persistenceβ) may be a manifestation of a tumor's size an
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