The benefit of chemotherapy in a patient with multiple brain metastases and meningitis carcinomatosa from ovarian cancer

International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-71

  Watanabe, Ayako ^a   Shimada, Muneaki ^a   Kigawa, Junzo ^a   Iba, Takahiro ^a   Oishi, Tetsuro ^a   Kanamori, Yasunobu ^a   Terakawa, Naoki ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Chemotherapy; Meningitis carcinomatosa; Ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE; TAXOIDS;

EID: 15044365200     PISSN: 13419625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10147-004-0437-x     Document Type: Article

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