A successful IVF-pregnancy in a patient who underwent conservative surgery followed by a regimen of cisplatin, vinblastine and peplomycin to treat an advanced ovarian mixed germ cell tumour: A Case Report

Human Reproduction

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 850-852

  Kitajima, Y ^a   Endo, T ^a   Hayashi, T ^a   Ishioka, S ^a   Baba, T ^a   Honnma, H ^a   Saito, T ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Cancer; Chemotherapy; Germ cell tumour; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; PEPLEOMYCIN; PVP PROTOCOL 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINBLASTINE;

ADHESION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TWINS;

ADHESIONS; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PEPLOMYCIN; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TWINS; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 34247850962     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/del413     Document Type: Article

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