Adenocarcinoma within a paracoccygeal teratoma in an adult: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-262

  Tulchinksy, Hagit ^a,b   Tovar, Ana ^a,b   Gutman, Haim ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Paracoccygeal; Radiotherapy; Surgery; Teratoma; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COCCYGEAL BONE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARACOCCYGEAL TERATOMA; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERATOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COCCYX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TERATOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17044439166     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2913-3     Document Type: Article

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