Pulmonary blastoma: Case report of a patient with a 7-year remission and review of chemotherapy experience in the world literature

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 462-467

  Cutler, Corey S ^a   Michel, René P ^a   Yassa, Miriam ^a   Langleben, Adrian ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Cisplatin; Etoposide; Pulmonary blastoma; Pulmonary neoplasm

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLORMETHINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; LOMUSTINE; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C; PROCARBAZINE; THIOTEPA; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE; VINDESINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG BLASTOMA; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY BLASTOMA; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 0032006224     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980201)82:3<462::AID-CNCR6>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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