Leuprolide acetate for treating refractory or persistent ovarian granulosa cell tumor

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 393-396

  Fishman, Amiram ^b   Kudelka, Andrzej P ^a   Tresukosol, Damrong ^b   Edwards, Creighton L ^b   Freedman, Ralph S ^b   Kaplan, Alan L ^b   Girtanner, Robert E ^b   Kavanagh, John J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

granulosa cell tumor; leuprolide; ovarian neoplasms

Indexed keywords

LEUPRORELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL TUMOR; GROWTH INHIBITION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; OVARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOSA CELL TUMOR; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LEUPROLIDE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029898820     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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