Malignant neuroendocrine tumor presenting a huge mediastinal mass controlled with radiation therapy

Lung Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-58

  Furuta, Masaya ^a   Hayakawa, Kazushige ^a   Kato, Shingo ^a   Mitsuhashi, Norio ^a   Nakajima, Takashi ^a   Niibe, Hideo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Long term survival; Mediastinal tumor; Neuroendocrine tumor; NSE; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; KERATIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEA;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PALLIATIVE CARE;

EID: 0032191664     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5002(98)00067-1     Document Type: Article

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