Reliability and Validity of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society Scoring System for the Upper Extremity in Japanese Patients.

CONCLUSIONS: We can conclude that the MSTS is not an adequate measure of general health-related quality of life; however, this system was designed mainly to be a simple measure of function in a single extremity. To evaluate the mental state of patients with musculoskeletal tumors in the upper extremity, further study is needed.
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Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - May 30, 2017 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Uehara K, Ogura K, Akiyama T, Shinoda Y, Iwata S, Kobayashi E, Tanzawa Y, Yonemoto T, Kawano H, Kawai A Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research