Clinical characteristics of gestational trophoblastic disease at a single institute

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-100

  Alici, Suleyman ^a,b   Eralp, Yesim ^a   Saip, Pinar ^a   Argon, Andac ^a   Basaran, Mert ^a   Topuz, Erkan ^a   Aydiner, Adnan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Choriocarcinoma; EMA CO; Gestational trophoblastic diseases

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CISPLATIN; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; MONOTHERAPY; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT CODING; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; PROGNOSIS; TROPHOBLASTIC NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0036623106     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.197.95     Document Type: Article

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