Pericardial angiosarcoma after mediastinal irradiation for seminoma: A case report and a review of the literature

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 912-917

  Killion, Matthew J ^a,b   Brodovsky, Harvey S ^a   Schwarting, Roland ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

pericardial tumor; post irradiation sarcoma; radiation induced malignancy; seminoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; SECOND CANCER; SEMINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PERICARDIUM; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029781332     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960815)78:4<912::AID-CNCR31>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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