Gastric enterochromaffin-like-cell tumor with liver and splenic metastases

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 383-386

  Eriguchi, Naofumi ^a   Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a   Hara, Masao ^a   Sakai, Takenori ^a   Imayama, Hiroyasu ^a   Tanaka, Eiji ^a   Hashimoto, Mitsuo ^a   Imamura, Ichiro ^a   Kage, Masayoshi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enterochromaffin like cell tumor; Liver and splenic metastases

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; ENTEROCHROMAFFIN CELL; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH CANCER; SYMPTOM; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; CARCINOID TUMOR; ENTEROCHROMAFFIN CELLS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032775612     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005350050279     Document Type: Article

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