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Karnofsky Performance Status

Known as: Karnofsky Scale, Performance Status, Karnofsky, Status, Karnofsky Performance 
A performance measure for rating the ability of a person to perform usual activities, evaluating a patient's progress after a therapeutic procedure… 
National Institutes of Health

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2010
2010
Intelligent Methods of Fusing the Knowledge During Incremental Learning via Clustering in A Distributed Environment
One of the ways of learning from the data which is physically distributed over multiple locations is to have a common learning… 
2003
2003
[Preliminary experience with balloon kyphoplasty for the treatment of painful osteoporotic compression fractures].
PURPOSE To describe the technique and to evaluate the safety and efficacy of percutaneous kyphoplasty as a new treatment in… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Prediction of spinal epidural metastases.
CONTEXT Early diagnosis and treatment of spinal epidural metastases (SEM) is of the utmost importance to prevent neurological… 
2000
2000
Unusual Free Radical Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate in Anionic Microemulsion Media
The polymerization of vinyl acetate in one-phase o/w microemulsions stabilized with Aerosol OT (AOT) is examined as a function of… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
A randomized, controlled, safety study using imiquimod for the topical treatment of anogenital warts in HIV-infected patients. Imiquimod Study Group.
OBJECTIVE To assess the safety of imiquimod, an immune response modifier, in the topical treatment of external anogenital warts… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Treatment of esophageal fistulas with a new polyurethane-covered, self-expanding mesh stent: a prospective study.
OBJECTIVES Esophagorespiratory fistulas are serious complications of malignant disease in the esophagus and are associated with… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Lung cancer in lifelong non-smokers. Edinburgh Lung Cancer Group.
The Edinburgh Lung Cancer Group registered 3070 new patients with lung cancer in the five years 1981-5 from a catchment… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
Selection of a management strategy for pediatric brainstem tumors.
Brainstem tumors arise in portions of the rhombencephalon and mesencephalon. Some authorities include diencephalic tumors in this… 
1986
1986
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for osteogenic sarcoma: a model for the treatment of other highly malignant neoplasms.
  • G. Rosen
  • Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte…
  • 1986
  • Corpus ID: 19989335
The term “neoadjuvant chemotherapy” was first described by Frei in his Karnofsky lecture, where it was used to describe the use… 
1952
1952
Further observations on the use of triethylene melamine in neoplastic diseases.
IN A PREVIOUS paper1we reported that triethylene melamine, a substance which was developed for the crease-proofing of cloth, and… 
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