Thymic carcinoma with autoimmune syndrome: Successful treatment with weekly infusional high-dose 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2B, 1997, Pages 1331-1334

  Hsu, Chih Hung ^a,b   Yeh, Kun Huei ^a,b   Cheng, Ann Lii ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune syndrome; Highdose 5 FU and leucovorin; Thymic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDIASTINUM MASS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; THYMUS CANCER;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MIDDLE AGED; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030937624     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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