Treatment of pediatric malignant thymoma: Long-term remission in a 14-year-old boy with EBV-associated thymic carcinoma by aggressive, combined modality treatment

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 419-424

  Niehues, Tim ^a   Harms, Dieter ^c   Jürgens, Heribert ^b   Göbel, Ulrich ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Children; Epstein Barr virus; Radiation therapy; Surgery; Thymic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOEPITHELIOMA; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETOPOSIDE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REMISSION INDUCTION; RNA, VIRAL; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0029937664     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199606)26:6<419::AID-MPO10>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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