Dysgerminoma in a patient with a tumor of the neck: Empiric treatment of stage IV dysgerminoma

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 109-113

  Isaka, Keiichi ^a   Akaeda, Tomoyoshi ^a   Itoh, Hitoshi ^a   Hori, Kazuhiro ^a   Yudate, Tamaki ^a   Nagata, Junko ^a   Suzuki, Yasunobu ^a   Takayama, Masaomi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Germ cell tumor; Helical computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; PEPLEOMYCIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSGERMINOMA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; METASTASIS; NECK TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSGERMINOMA; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PEPLOMYCIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036978404     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067716     Document Type: Article

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