Treatment of primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus with endoscopic injection of interferon-β combined with systemic chemotherapy: A case report

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 773-777

  Sakamoto, Hisako ^a   Uedo, Noriya ^a   Iishi, Hiroyasu ^a   Higashino, Koji ^a   Ishihara, Ryu ^a   Mitani, Kenichirou ^a   Narahara, Hiroyuki ^a   Tatsuta, Masaharu ^a   Mano, Masayuki ^a   Ishiguro, Shingo ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; DACARBAZINE; NIMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HUMAN TISSUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0038446349     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2003.219     Document Type: Article

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