Fetus-in-fetu with malignant recurrence

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1476-1479

  Hopkins, Katharine L ^a,b,c   Dickson, Paula K ^a,b   Ball, Turner I ^a,b   Ricketts, Richard R ^a,b   O'Shea, Patricia A ^a,b   Abramowsky, Carlos R ^a,b  

^a Emory University ^*

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal twinning; Fetus in fetu; Teratoma; Yolk sac carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FETUS IN FETU; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE; YOLK SAC TUMOR; BLOOD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FETUS; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PERITONEUM TUMOR;

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; TERATOMA;

EID: 0031241518     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3468(97)90567-4     Document Type: Article

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