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Major surgery in an osteosarcoma patient refusing blood transfusion: case report

We describe an unusual case of osteosarcoma in a Jehovah's Witness patient who underwent chemotherapy and major surgery without the need for blood transfusion. This 16-year-old girl presented with osteosarcoma of the right proximal tibia requiring proximal tibia resection, followed by endoprost...

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Autores principales: Dhanoa, Amreeta, Singh, Vivek A, Shanmugam, Rukmanikanthan, Rajendram, Raja
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21059231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-8-96