Growing teratoma syndrome after ovarian germ cell tumors

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 509-514

  Zagamé, Livia ^a   Pautier, Patricia ^a   Duvillard, Pierre ^a   Castaigne, Damienne ^a   Patte, Catherine ^a   Lhommé, Catherine ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY TERATOMA; OVARY TUMOR; PERITONEUM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYNDROME; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SYNDROME; TERATOMA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748359689     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000231686.94924.41     Document Type: Article

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