Primary pulmonary rhabdomyosarcoma in adults: Case report and review of literature

Clinical Lung Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 389-391

  Gupta, Ajay ^a,d   Sharma, Mehar Chand ^b   Kochupillai, Vinod ^a   Kichendasse, Ganesan ^a   Gupta, Anuradha ^c   Atri, Surender ^b   Medhi, Kunjehari ^a  

^a INSTITUTE ROTARY CANCER HOSPITAL   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c BASE HOSPITAL   (India)

^d NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Radiation therapy; VAD

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAPHRAGM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERICARDIUM; PLEURA EFFUSION; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 34250370508     PISSN: 15257304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CLC.2007.n.021     Document Type: Article

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