Infantile Choriocarcinoma Treated With Chemotherapy Alone

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 550-557

  Johnson, Emma J ^a   Crofton, Patricia M ^a   O'Neill, John ^a   Wilkinson, A Graham ^a   McKenzie, Kathryn J ^a   Munro, Fraser D ^a   Myles, Lynn ^a   Seckl, Michael J ^b   Wallace, W Hamish B ^a  

^a Edinburgh Sick Children's Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

human chorionic gonadotrophin ( hCG); Chemotherapy; Hepatic tumour; Infantile choriocarcinoma

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CISPLATIN; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE;

BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE CHORIOCARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; NECK TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN METASTASIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHORIOCARCINOMA, NON-GESTATIONAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242574751     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.10411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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