Metastatic renal cell carcinoma presenting as multiple pleural tumours

Respirology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 128-131

  Ohnishi, Hiroshi ^a,c   Abe, Masahiro ^b   Hamada, Hironobu ^a   Yokoyama, Akihito ^a,c   Hirayama, Takeru ^b   Ito, Ryoji ^a   Nishimura, Kazutaka ^b   Higaki, Jitsuo ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization Ehime Medical Center   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mesothelioma; Metastasis; Needle biopsy; Pleural effusion; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; PICIBANIL;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; MULTIPLE CANCER; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEPHRECTOMY; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA METASTASIS; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 14844299436     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2005.00652.x     Document Type: Article

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