Mediastinal metastases from testicular nonseminomatous germ cell tumors: Patterns of dissemination and predictors of long-term survival with surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 913-923

  Kesler, Kenneth A ^a,b   Brooks, Jo Ann ^a   Rieger, Karen M ^a   Fineberg, Naomi S ^a   Einhorn, Lawrence H ^a   Brown, John W ^a   Putnam Jr , Joe B ^c   Shrager, Joseph B ^c   Ginsberg, Robert J ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CISPLATIN; IFOSFAMIDE; VINBLASTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL APPROACH; TERATOMA; TESTIS TUMOR; TUMOR NECROSIS;

EID: 0037392215     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2003.407     Document Type: Article

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