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
Refinements of surgical technique in soft tissue sarcomas
β Scribed by Constantine P. Karakousis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 507 KB
- Volume
- 101
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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