Seventy-four adult patients with localized soft tissue sarcomas were treated with radiation therapy following surgery between 1965 and 1988. Fiftythree were treated after the first excision of their tumor with 6 (1 1.3%) local recurrences. Twenty-one received radiation after excision of recurrent di
Monitoring the Adequacy of Surgical Margins After Resection of Bone and Soft-Tissue Sarcoma
β Scribed by Biau, David J.; Weiss, Kurt R.; Bhumbra, Rej S.; Davidson, Darin; Brown, Chris; Griffin, Anthony; Wunder, Jay S.; Ferguson, Peter C.
- Book ID
- 121636637
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 346 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1068-9265
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