Patterns of failure after trimodality therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 334-338

  Baldini, Elizabeth Healey ^a,b   Recht, Abram ^a   Strauss, Gary M ^a   DeCamp Jr , Malcolm M ^a   Swanson, Scott J ^a   Liptay, Michael J ^a   Mentzer, Steven J ^a   Sugarbaker, David J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0031059670     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)01228-3     Document Type: Article

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