Meningitis carcinomatosa originating from an alpha fetoprotein-producing gastric cancer

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 223-227

  Tsujikawa, Tomoyuki ^a   Tsukamoto, Hirotaka ^a   Itoh, Akihiko ^a   Andoh, Akira ^a   Sasaki, Masaya ^a   Koyama, Shigeki ^a   Fujiyama, Yoshihide ^a   Bamba, Tadao ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Immunostaining; MRI

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOPSY; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGITIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034154130     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.223     Document Type: Article

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