Local injection of interferon beta in malignant melanoma of the esophagus as adjuvant of systemic pre- and postoperative DAV chemotherapy: case report with 7 years of long-term survival

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 408-410

  Kawada, Kenro ^a   Kawano, Tatsuyuki ^a   Nagai, Kagami ^a   Nishikage, Tetsuro ^a   Nakajima, Yasuaki ^a   Tokairin, Yutaka ^a   Ogiya, Kazuo ^a   Tanaka, Koji ^a   Iwai, Takehisa ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; BETA INTERFERON; DACARBAZINE; NIMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DACARBAZINE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; INTERFERON-BETA; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NIMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 34447525133     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.05.032     Document Type: Article

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