Leiomyosarcoma of the thoracic aorta

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 537-540

  Iorgulescu, Dragos G ^a,b   White, Antoinette L ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aortic neoplasms; Leiomyosarcoma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; ONSET AGE; PROGNOSIS; SPINDLE CELL; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AORTA, THORACIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PANCYTOPENIA; PNEUMONIA; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032986144     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.1999.01621.x     Document Type: Article

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