Isolated splenic metastases occuring as an unknown primary lesion

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 83-84

  Alici, Suleyman ^a   Kosem, M ^a   Kotan, C ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; NOTE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPLEEN CANCER; SPLEEN METASTASIS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0037531330     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.920     Document Type: Note

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