Small-cell carcinoma manifesting systemic lymphadenopathy combined with adenocarcinoma in the gallbladder: Aggressiveness and sensitivity to chemotherapy

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 801-805

  Okamoto, Hirotaka ^a,b   Miura, Kazuo ^a   Ogawara, Tadahiko ^b   Fujii, Hideki ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b Kanoiwa General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Gallbladder; Preoperative chemotherapy; Small cell carcinoma; Systemic lymphadenopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY;

EID: 0141856579     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-002-1150-z     Document Type: Article

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