A case of malignant pleural mesothelioma with metastasis to the orbit

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 469-471

  Kubota, Kaoru ^a,c   Furuse, Kiyoyuki ^a   Kawahara, Masaaki ^a   Ogawara, Mitsumasa ^a   Ryu, Sinei ^b   Yamamoto, Satoru ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KINKI CHUO CHEST MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b OSAKA PREFECTURAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR RESPIRATORY AND ALLERGIC DISEASES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distant metastasis; Malignant mesothelioma; Orbital metastasis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MESOTHELIOMA; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; ORBIT TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA TUMOR; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030346296     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jjco.a023266     Document Type: Article

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