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
Prognostic Index for Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcomas With Isolated Local Recurrence
✍ Scribed by Ramesh Chandran Ramanathan; Roger A’Hern; Cyril Fisher; J. Thomas Thomas Meirion
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 463 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1068-9265
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