The Role of Postoperative Irradiation in the Treatment of Locally Recurrent Incompletely Resected Extra-Abdominal Desmoid Tumors

James Fontanesi; Michael P. Mott; Michael J. Kraut; David P. Lucas; Peter R. Miller

doi:10.1155/2004/378521

Sarcoma (Jan 2004)

The Role of Postoperative Irradiation in the Treatment of Locally Recurrent Incompletely Resected Extra-Abdominal Desmoid Tumors

James Fontanesi,
Michael P. Mott,
Michael J. Kraut,
David P. Lucas,
Peter R. Miller

Affiliations

James Fontanesi: Department of Radiation Oncology, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Michael P. Mott: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Michael J. Kraut: Department of Medicine, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
David P. Lucas: Department of Pathology, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Peter R. Miller: Department of Radiology, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2004/378521
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 2-3
pp. 83 – 86

Abstract

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Background: To define the efficacy of postoperative irradiation in patients with recurrent extra-abdominal desmoid tumors in whom surgical intervention has resulted in microscopically or grossly positive surgical margins.

Published in Sarcoma

ISSN: 1357-714X (Print); 1369-1643 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/5805

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