Small cell carcinoma of the bladder: A case report and a literature review

Archivos Espanoles de Urologia

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-202

  Dalpiaz, Orietta ^a   Al Rabi, Najati ^a   Galfano, Antonio ^a   Martignoni, Guido ^a   Ficarra, Vincenzo ^a,b   Artibani, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bladder tumors; Chemotherapy; Small cell carcinoma; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CYSTECTOMY; DERMATITIS; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHEMA; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; PURPURA; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; STRATIFICATION; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYSTECTOMY; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; ETOPOSIDE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; LIFE TABLES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0037361068     PISSN: 00040614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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