Survival of biphasic pulmonary blastoma

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1174-1179

  Liman, Serife Tuba ^a   Altinok, Tamer ^b   Topcu, Salih ^a   Tastepe, Abdullah Irfan ^b   Uzar, Ali ^c   Demircan, Sedat ^d   Demirag, Funda ^b  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Ataturk Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery Education and Research Hospital Ankara   (Turkey)

^c Alanya State Hospital   (Turkey)

^d GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Pulmonary blastoma; Survival; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOBECTOMY; LUNG BLASTOMA; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WARD; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY BLASTOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646903956     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2005.10.026     Document Type: Article

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