The effectiveness of medroxyprogesterone in the treatment of multiple metastasizing leiomyosarcomas: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 138-141

  Uchida, Tatsuo ^a   Nakakawaji, Katsura ^a   Sakamoto, Junichi ^a   Kojima, Hiroshi ^a   Murakami, Hiroya ^a   Kato, Junji ^a   Yasue, Mitsunori ^a  

^a AICHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

hormone receptor; leiomyosarcoma; lung metastasis; uterine leiomyoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ETOPOSIDE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS SARCOMA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BIOPSY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE 17-ACETATE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACOTOMY; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029932175     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00311780     Document Type: Article

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