An odd case of multiple "cannonball metastases"

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 935, 2003, Pages

  Buchholz, S ^a   Szawarski, P ^a   Dawson, S L ^a  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; HORMONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EXAMINATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOLYSIS; PULMONARY LEIOMYOMATA; SIDE EFFECT; SPINDLE CELL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UTERUS MYOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL DIVISION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0141480800     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.79.935.542     Document Type: Article

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