Treatment of extra-abdominal desmoid tumors with interferon-alpha with or without tretinoin

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-25

  Leithner, Andreas ^a   Schnack, Beate ^a   Katterschafka, Thomas ^a   Wiltschke, Christoph ^a   Amann, Gabriele ^a   Windhager, Reinhard ^b   Kotz, Rainer ^a   Zielinski, Christoph C ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aggressive fibromatosis; Desmoids; Nonsurgical treatment; Systemic therapy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ALPHA2 INTERFERON; RETINOIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESMOID TUMOR; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MALE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS, AGGRESSIVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TRETINOIN;

EID: 0033973632     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9098(200001)73:1<21::AID-JSO6>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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