Trauma-associated growth of suspected dormant micrometastasis

BMC Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  El Saghir, Nagi S ^a   Elhajj, Ihab I ^a   Geara, Fady B ^a   Hourani, Mukbil H ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; CELL ACTIVITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; SKULL INJURY; TUMOR GROWTH; BONE TUMOR; FATALITY; INJURY; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKULL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECURRENCE; SKULL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 26844500646     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-94     Document Type: Article

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