Treatment of Mediastinal Immature Teratoma in a Child With Precocious Puberty and Klinefelter's Syndrome

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1906-1908

  Chen, Chen Kun ^a   Chang, Yih Leong ^a   Jou, Shiann Tarng ^a   Tseng, Yu Ting ^a   Lee, Yung Chie ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BLEOMYCIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STERNOTOMY; TERATOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; REOPERATION; TERATOMA;

EID: 33750049981     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.03.077     Document Type: Article

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