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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 3.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2016 Dec 1;64(6):10.1002/pbc.26371. doi: 10.1002/pbc.26371

TABLE 4.

Most common reasons for hospitalizations among survivors of bone tumors and soft tissue sarcoma (by system)

Most common code Second most common code Third most common code
Neoplasms V5811 (antineoplastic chemotherapy) V581 (maintenance chemotherapy) 1,716 (malignant neoplasms of connective and other soft tissue of pelvis)
Diseases of the respiratory system 486 (pneumonia) 4,659 (acute URI) 51,881 (acute respiratoryfailure)
Skin and subcutaneous tissue 6,826 (cellulitis of leg-cellulitis and abscess of leg) 6,820 (cellulitis of face) 6,822(cellulitis of trunk), 6,827 (cellulitis of foot), 70,703 (pressure ulcer of lower back), 70,705 (pressure ulcer of buttocks)
Symptoms; signs; and ill-defined V5789 (rehab care involving other specified rehab procedures) 78,701 (nausea and vomiting) 78,906 (abdominal pain, epigastric)
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue 72,210 (lumbar disk replacement) 73,681 (unequal leg length) 7,242 (lumbar spinal stenosis)
Injury 99,859 (postoperative infection) 99,649 (mechanical complication of internal orthopedic device) 99,685 (complications of bone marrow transplantation)