Brain metastasis from esophageal carcinoma

Neurology India

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 492-493

  Almasi, Saeid ^a   Bashashati, Mohammad ^b   Rezaei, Nima ^b   Markazi Moghaddam, Nader ^a  

^a Radiother Dept Besat Nehaja Hosp   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cancer; Esophagus; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 12144253301     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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