Successful treatment of pulmonary artery sarcoma by a two-drug combination chemotherapy consisting of ifosfamide and epirubicin

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 417-419

  Uchida, Akiko ^a   Tabata, Masahiro ^a   Kiura, Katsuyuki ^a   Tanimoto, Yasushi ^a   Kanehiro, Arihiko ^a   Aoe, Motoi ^a   Ohohara, Nobuya ^a   Ueoka, Hiroshi ^a   Tanimoto, Mitsune ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Intimal sarcoma; Pulmonary artery

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; EPIRUBICIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; IFOSFAMIDE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INOPERABLE CANCER; INTIMA; LUNG ARTERY SARCOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; NEUTROPENIA; PULMONARY ARTERY DISEASE; SHOULDER PAIN; THORAX PAIN; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; DRUG EFFECT; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; SARCOMA; VASCULAR TUMOR;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; EPIRUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 24944580096     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyi106     Document Type: Article

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