Pleuropulmonary blastoma in childhood. A malignant degeneration of pulmonary cysts

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 20, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 863-865

  Dosios, T ^a,d   Stinios, J ^b   Nicolaides, P ^c   Spyrakos, S ^a   Androulakakis, E ^c   Constantopoulos, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Pleuropulmonary blastoma; Pulmonary cyst

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; DACTINOMYCIN; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG BLASTOMA; LUNG CYST; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PULMONARY BLASTOMA;

EID: 13444262137     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-003-0997-2     Document Type: Article

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