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Rehabilitation Setting

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The rehabilitation project for patients affected by oncologic conditions can be carried out in two types of setting, either as inpatient rehabilitation or as outpatient rehabilitation. The choice of a setting that is suitable to the treatment project cannot exclude a functional evaluation and should consider the patient’s overall function and the stage of the disease, so that it can dynamically adjust in time.

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  1. Complex Operative Unit, Neurological, Sub-Intensive, Orthopedic-Vascular, General Geriatric Rehabilitation Unit, Department of Medicine and Rehabilitation, G. Salvini Hospital, Garbagnate Milanese, Italy

    Valentina Gariboldi

  2. Physical Rehabilitation, Gaetano Pini – CTO Orthopedic Institute, Milan, Italy

    Maurizio Lopresti

  3. Rehabilitation Department, Gaetano Pini – CTO Orthopedic Institute, Milano, Italy

    Lorenzo Panella

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  1. Physical Rehabilitation, Gaetano Pini – CTO Orthopedic Institute, Milan, Italy

    Maurizio Lopresti

  2. Rehabilitation Department, Gaetano Pini – CTO Orthopedic Institute, Milano, Italy

    Lorenzo Panella

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Gariboldi, V., Lopresti, M., Panella, L. (2021). Rehabilitation Setting. In: Lopresti, M., Panella, L. (eds) Rehabilitation After Limb Salvage Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66352-0_9

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