Long term remission of metastatic placental site trophoblastic tumor (PSTT): Case report and review of literature

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Behtash, Nadereh ^a   Ghaemmaghami, Fatemeh ^a   Hasanzadeh, Malihe ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEDLINE; METASTASIS; OVARIECTOMY; SURVIVAL TIME; TROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR;

EID: 27444442551     PISSN: 14777819     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-3-34     Document Type: Article

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