Misleading leads: Don't assume an α-fetoprotein secreting tumour is of germ cell or hepatic origin

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 357-359

  Glod, John ^a,d   Koch, Bernadette ^a   Myseros, John ^a   Breneman, John ^b   Collins, Margaret H ^a,c  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinar cell tumour; Alpha fetoprotein; Pancreatoblastoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ACINAR CELL; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0036256196     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.1345     Document Type: Article

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