Choroid plexus carcinoma: A rare condition and its therapeutic management

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 401-403

  Fernández Calvo, Ovidio ^a   Gallegos Sancho, M I ^a   Quindos Varela M ^a   Paredes Velazquez L ^a   Dopico Vazquez D ^a   Anton Aparicio L M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carcinomas; Choroid plexus; Neural axis; Unusual

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHOROID PLEXUS CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIECTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSEMINATED CANCER; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION; LUNG LOBE; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; RARE DISEASE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR GROWTH; BONE TUMOR; CARCINOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE;

EID: 34848902644     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-007-0073-9     Document Type: Article

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