Intensive chemotherapy and radical resections for primary nonseminomatous mediastinal germ cell tumors

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 337-343

  Walsh, Garrett L ^a   Taylor, Grant D ^a   Nesbitt, Jonathan C ^a   Amato, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FOLINIC ACID; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL; VINBLASTINE SULFATE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEVER; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUROPATHY; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034088111     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)01472-1     Document Type: Article

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