Epidemiological study on giant cell tumor recurrence at the Brazilian National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Giant cell tumors are benign bone neoplasms that are relatively rare in adults and their biological behavior is still unpredictable. The incidence of local recurrence has presented variation between 0% and 65% in studies conducted worldwide, but few data are available on this c...

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Main Authors: Roberto Clayton Lima Oliveira Júnior, Marcelo Glauber da Silva Pereira, Pedro Braga Linhares Garcia, Patrícia Albuquerque dos Santos, Amanda dos Santos Cavalcanti, Walter Meohas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia 2016-08-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-36162016000400459&lng=en&tlng=en