Histologically pure seminoma with elevated α-fetoprotein: A clinicopathologic study of ten cases

Oncology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1425-1429

  Nazeer, Tipu ^a   Ro, Jae Y ^a   Amato, Robert J ^a   Park, Yong W ^a   Ordonez, Nelson G ^a   Ayala, Alberto G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

fetoprotein; Immunophenotype; Seminoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; KERATIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MITOTIC INDEX; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORCHIECTOMY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 0031667755     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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