Complete remission of an endometrial carcinoma with bilateral multiple pulmonary and extrapelvic metastases treated by surgery and chemotherapy consisting of paclitaxel and carboplatin

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1160-1162

  Gücer, Fatih ^a   Yilmaz, O ^a   Balkanli Kaplan, P ^a   Yüce, M Ali ^a  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Endometrial carcinoma; Lung metastases; Paclitaxel; Prognosis; Pulmonary metastases; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; MEGESTROL ACETATE; PACLITAXEL; TUMOR MARKER;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURETTAGE; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PACLITAXEL; REMISSION INDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 30944432740     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2005.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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