Treatment of infantile choriocarcinoma of the liver

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-102

  Yoon, Janet M ^a   Burns, R Cartland ^b   Malogolowkin, Marcio H ^a,c   Mascarenhas, Leo ^a,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

human chorionic gonadotropin; ( HCG); Chemotherapy; Choriocarcinoma; Infant; Liver

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHORIOCARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHORIOCARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 34249813424     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.20623     Document Type: Article

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