Fever and painful breast swelling in a 35-year-old man: unusual presentation of an extragonadal chorlocarcinoma;Ein 35jahriger patient mit fieber und schmerzhafter brustdrusenschwellung nach aufenthalt in Sri Lanka

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 114-118

  Alkadhi, H ^a   Tschop M ^a   Marschang, A ^a,b   Langenmayer, I ^a   Feucht, H E ^a   Strasburger, C J ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PACLITAXEL; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CARDIA CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; SRI LANKA; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SRI LANKA; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0032579357     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1023914     Document Type: Article

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