Presacral medulloepithelioma - De novo or teratomatous?

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-91

  Somjee, Saika ^a   Craver, Randall ^b   Kallagowdar, Chandra ^a   Yu, Lolie C ^a,c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Bone Marrow Transplantation   (United States)

Author keywords

Medulloepithelioma; Presacral; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETHARGY; LIVER BIOPSY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACRUM; TERATOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; NEUTROPHILS; TERATOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0347763786     PISSN: 08880018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08880010490263515     Document Type: Article

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