Asymptomatic intracardiac metastasis from a low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma with successful surgical resection

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 999-1001

  Yokoyama, Yoshihito ^a   Ono, Yuichi ^a   Sakamoto, Tomomi ^a   Fukuda, Ikuo ^a   Mizunuma, Hideki ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endometrial stromal; Recurrence; Sarcoma metastasis

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; IFOSFAMIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOMETRIUM SARCOMA; FEMALE; HEART METASTASIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA; VASCULAR TUMOR;

EID: 1342343082     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2003.11.049     Document Type: Article

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