Mediastinal germ cell tumor complicated by visceral hemangiomatosis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1042-1045

  Sekine, Ikuo ^a,c   Kodama, Tetsuro ^a,c   Hasebe, Takahiro ^b   Matsumoto, Taketoshi ^a   Nagai, Kanji ^d   Nishiwaki, Yutaka ^d  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Kasabach Merritt syndrome; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CANCER; SPLEEN TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; GERMINOMA; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032234376     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.1042     Document Type: Article

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