Unusual presentation of posterior mediastinal chordoma in a 2-year-old boy

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 743-746

  Huang, Shih Ming ^a   Chen, Chu Chin ^a   Chiu, Pao Chin ^a   Lai, Ping Hong ^a   Ho, Jih Tsun ^a   Tseng, Hui Hwa ^a  

^a Department of Pediatrics ^*

Author keywords

Asymmetric temperature; Chordoma; Physaliphorous cell; Posterior mediastinum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT MORTALITY; LEG; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NOTOCHORD; PARALYSIS; PLEURA METASTASIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THORACIC SPINE; TUMOR GROWTH;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHORDOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FATAL OUTCOME; HAND; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; LAMINECTOMY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; PARAPLEGIA; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

EID: 0042735010     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043426-200309000-00014     Document Type: Article

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