Results of chemical pleurodesis with mitoxantrone in malignant pleural effusion from breast cancer

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Barbetakis, Nikolaos ^a   Antoniadis, Theodoros ^a   Tsilikas, Christodoulos ^a  

^a THEAGENIO CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Karnofsky performance status; Malignant pleural effusion; Mitoxantrone

Indexed keywords

MITOXANTRONE; SCLEROSING AGENT;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NAUSEA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PROGNOSIS; RASH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLEROTHERAPY; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN ABSCESS; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING;

EID: 33646224111     PISSN: 14777819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-2-16     Document Type: Article

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