Letter to the editor: A three-year-old girl with a yolk sac tumor in the orbit/maxillary sinus [1]

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-71

  Bresters, D ^a   Zwaan, Ch M ^a   Veerman, A J P ^a   Leemans, Ch R ^a   Westerveld, G J ^a   Van Der Linden, J C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAXILLA SINUS TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; YOLK SAC TUMOR; MAXILLA SINUS CANCER; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXILLARY SINUS NEOPLASMS; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037210135     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.1375     Document Type: Letter

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