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Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors

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In austere settings most patients with tumors present late and comprehensive services for treatment are usually lacking. Palliative care is also deficient. Realizing these limitations, this chapter aims to provide guidelines to help make a diagnosis and distinguish those tumors which may be helped from those for which little is possible.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, College of Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Blantyre, Malawi

    Nyengo Mkandawire BMBS, MCh (ORTH), FCS (ECSA), FRCS

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    John P. Dormans MD

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  1. Nyengo Mkandawire BMBS, MCh (ORTH), FCS (ECSA), FRCS
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Correspondence to Nyengo Mkandawire BMBS, MCh (ORTH), FCS (ECSA), FRCS .

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Richard A. Gosselin

  2. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    David A. Spiegel

  3. Columbus, Montana, USA

    Michelle Foltz

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Mkandawire, N., Dormans, J.P. (2014). Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors. In: Gosselin, R., Spiegel, D., Foltz, M. (eds) Global Orthopedics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1578-7_42

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