Pulmonary blastoma: A review with special emphasis on prognosis and treatment

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 145-160

  Larsen, Henrik ^a   Sørensen, Jens Benn ^a  

^a FINSEN LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLORMETHINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; IFOSFAMIDE; LOMUSTINE; MITOXANTRONE; PROCARBAZINE; RUFOCROMOMYCIN; TEPA; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEMATOTHORAX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG BLASTOMA; LUNG RESECTION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SMOKING;

EID: 0029744675     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-7372(96)90000-6     Document Type: Review

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