Surgical resection combined with intrathoracic hyperthermic perfusion for thymic carcinoma with an intrathoracic disseminated lesion: A case report

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1 B, 1999, Pages 699-702

  Iyoda, Akira ^a   Yusa, Toshikazu ^b   Hiroshima, Kenzo ^b   Fujisawa, Takehiko ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dissemination; Hyperthermia; Thymic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISSEMINATED CANCER; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL PERFUSION; THYMUS CANCER; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032922473     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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