Late relapse of nonseminomatous germ cell tumor of the testis: Successful treatment with salvage chemotherapy alone

Urology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 469-470

  Papadimitris, Constantinos ^a   Papadimitriou, Christos ^a   Kokolakis, Nikolaos ^a   Athanassiades, Peter ^a   Dimopoulos, Meletios A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEMINOMA; TESTIS CANCER;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; REMISSION INDUCTION; SALVAGE THERAPY; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 0030933191     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00495-5     Document Type: Article

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