Long-term survival of a patient with primary sellar choriocarcinoma with pulmonary metastases: A case report

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 293-295

  Sievers, Eric L ^a,b,c   Berger, Mitchell ^b,c   Geyer, J Russell ^a,b,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

brain neoplasm; choriocarcinoma; germ cell tumor; human chorionic gonadotropin; intrasellar tumor; neoplasm metastasis

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADOLESCENT; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0029963062     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199604)26:4<293::AID-MPO14>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Conference Paper

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