Experience with aggressive therapy in three children with unresectable malignant liver tumors

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 132-135

  Dower, N A ^a,c   Smith, L J ^a   Lees, G ^a   Kneteman, N ^a   Idikio, H ^a   Emond, J ^b   Rosenthal, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood cancer; Hepatoblastoma; Orthotopic liver transplantation; Unresectable hepatic malignant tumors

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; IFOSFAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE;

EID: 0033967590     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(200002)34:2<132::AID-MPO11>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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