Isolated Splenic Metastasis from Colon Cancer

Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 143-146

  Cavallaro, A ^a   Modugno, Pietro ^b   Specchia, M ^b   Pontenza, A E ^a   Loschiavo, V ^a   Colli, R ^a   Lauriola, L ^a   Barone, C ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Regional lymphonode metastases; Sigmoid adenocarcinoma; Splenic isolated metastasis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SPLEEN METASTASIS; SPLENECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; SPLEEN; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2142758254     PISSN: 03929078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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