Symptomatic skeletal muscle metastasis and elephantiastic lymphedema in a patient with recurrent ovarian carcinoma

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 471-473

  Foldi M ^a   Randelzhofer, B ^a   Gitsch, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; TOPOTECAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHEDEMA; MUSCLE BLEEDING; MUSCLE METASTASIS; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY CARCINOMA; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 0042123647     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-8258(03)00269-5     Document Type: Article

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