Testicular cancer with tumor thrombus extending to the inferior vena cava successfully removed using veno-venous bypass: A case report

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 458-460

  Kinebuchi, Yoshiaki ^a   Ogawa, Teruyuki ^a   Kato, Haruaki ^a   Igawa, Yasuhiko ^a   Nishizawa, Osamu ^a   Miyagawa, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ cell tumor; Inferior vena cava; Testicular cancer; Tumor thrombus; Veno venous bypass

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CAMPTOTHECIN DERIVATIVE; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; NEDAPLATIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CONSENSUS; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY VEIN; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; TERATOMA; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR THROMBUS; VEIN BYPASS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; REMISSION INDUCTION; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL VEINS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34248657986     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2007.01757.x     Document Type: Article

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