Ovarian small cell carcinoma of the hypercalcemic type in children and adolescents: A prognostically unfavorable but curable disease

Cancer

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2298-2306

  Distelmaier, Felix ^a   Calaminus, Gabriele ^a   Harms, Dieter ^b   Sträter, Ronald ^c   Kordes, Uwe ^d   Fleischhack, Gudrun ^e   Göbel, Ulrich ^a   Schneider, Dominik T ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Hypercalcemic; Ovarian cancer; Small cell carcinoma; Therapy

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; MELPHALAN; PACLITAXEL; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; NEPHROTOXICITY; OVARY CANCER; OVARY SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750495596     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22213     Document Type: Review

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