Preoperative steroid pulse therapy for invasive thymoma: Clinical experience and mechanism of action

Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1901-1907

  Kobayashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Fujii, Yoshitaka ^a   Yano, Motoki ^a   Sasaki, Hidefumi ^a   Yukiue, Haruhiro ^a   Haneda, Hiroshi ^a   Suzuki, Eriko ^a   Endo, Katsuhiko ^a   Kawano, Osamu ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid therapy; Neoplasm; Preoperative steroid pulse; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NICK END LABELING; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; THYMOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646378691     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21875     Document Type: Article

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