Solitary meningeal recurrence in a patient with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder with locally bulky disease at presentation

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-143

  Santarossa, Sandra ^a   Vaccher, Emanuela ^a   Balestreri, Luca ^a   Volpe, Rachele ^a   Tirelli, Umberto ^a  

^a CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Meningeal recurrence; Transitional cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; METHOTREXATE; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MENINGIOMA; RISK FACTOR; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030751706     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005870408066     Document Type: Article

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