Effective Treatment of Thymic Carcinoma with Operation and Combination Chemotherapy Against Acute Monocyte Leukemia: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 555-558

  Kitami, Akihiko ^a   Suzuki, Takashi ^a   Suzuki, Shuichi ^a   Hori, Goichi ^a   Mori, Hajime ^a   Mitsuya, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute monocyte leukemia; Chemotherapy; Thymic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DCMP PROTOCOL; MERCAPTOPURINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CASE REPORT; CHORIOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CANCER; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THYMOMA; UTERUS CANCER;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHORIOCARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MONOCYTIC, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PREDNISOLONE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032159120     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/28.9.555     Document Type: Article

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