Erschienen in:
06.06.2017 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Reliability and Validity of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society Scoring System for the Upper Extremity in Japanese Patients
verfasst von:
Michelle Ghert, MD, FRCSC
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 9/2017
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Excerpt
Limb-salvage surgery for an upper or lower extremity tumor can be a life-saving procedure that allows the patient to survive with a viable and functional limb. Of course, we are left with a key question: Exactly how viable and functional are these limbs? The Musculoskeletal Tumor Society (MSTS) scoring system can help investigators and clinicians answer this question, but the MSTS score was written in English and tested on patients from the United States [
7]; for it to be used elsewhere, it needs to be translated and validated in the languages spoken where the tool is used. …