Management of placental site trophoblastic tumors

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-59

  Newlands, Edward S ^a   Bower, Mark ^a   Fisher, Rosemary A ^a   Paradinas, Fernando J ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Placental site; Trophoblastic tumor

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; HYSTERECTOMY; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL SITE TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR, PLACENTAL SITE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031886416     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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