Treatment of unresectable hepatoblastoma with liver transplantation in the pediatric population

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 535-538

  Molmenti, Ernesto P ^a,b   Wilkinson, Krissy ^b   Molmenti, Hebe ^a   Roden, Jay S ^b   Squires, Robert H ^b   Fasola, Carlos G ^a   Tomlinson, Gail ^b   Nagata, David E ^a   D'Amico, Lisa ^b   Lopez, M James ^b   Savino, Leo M ^a   Marubashi, Shigeru ^a   Sanchez, Edmund Q ^a   Goldstein, Robert M ^a   Levy, Marion F ^a   Andrews, Walter ^b   Andersen, John A ^b   Klintmalm, Goran B ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfa fetoprotein; Chemotherapy; Hepatoblastoma; Liver transplantation; Malignancy; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; IRINOTECAN; METHOTREXATE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INOPERABLE CANCER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL;

FEMALE; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036664210     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-6143.2002.20607.x     Document Type: Article

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