Calcified gastric cancer - CT findings before and after chemotherapy. Case report and discussion of the pathogenesis of this type of calcification

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 122-125

  Balestreri, Luca ^a   Canzonieri, Vincenzo ^a   Morassut, Sandro ^a  

^a CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcifications; Computed tomography; Stomach, neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; STOMACH CANCER; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TUMOR CALCINOSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CALCINOSIS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030936936     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(96)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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