A successfully operated case of choriocarcinoma with recurrent intratumoral hemorrhage

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-72

  Sakurada, Kaori ^b   Kayama, Takamasa ^a   Kawakami, Keita ^b   Saino, Makoto ^b   Sato, Shinya ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Biopsy; Chemotherapy; Choriocarcinoma; Intratumoral hemorrhage; Radical resection

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CHORIOCARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; IFOSFAMIDE; MALE; PINEAL GLAND;

EID: 0033957530     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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