Two cases of atypical carcinoid of the thymus

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 834-838

  Fujiwara, Keiichi ^a   Segawa, Yoshihiko ^a   Takigawa, Nagio ^a   Kishino, Daizo ^a   Ida, Mikiko ^a   Eguchi, Kenji ^a   Nakata, Masao ^a   Saeki, Hideyuki ^a   Mandai, Koichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION SHIKOKU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Neuroendocrine tumor

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHROMOGRANIN; CHROMOGRANIN A; ENOLASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOID TUMOR; CHROMOGRANIN A; CHROMOGRANINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034303963     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.834     Document Type: Article

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