Placental site trophoblastic tumor presenting as subaponeurotic metastasis

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 385-388

  Aoki, Y ^a   Kase, H ^a   Kashima, K ^a   Yahata, T ^a   Tanaka, K ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

EMA CO; EP EMA; PSTT; Radiation therapy; Subaponeurotic metastasis

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; METASTASIS; OCCIPITAL BONE; ORBIT; OVARY METASTASIS; PLACENTAL SITE TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RESPONSE; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SKULL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR REGRESSION; UTERUS TUMOR; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; OCCIPITAL BONE; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TROPHOBLASTIC NEOPLASMS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 15444381027     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2005.15235.x     Document Type: Article

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