Primary malignant sarcomas of the heart and great vessels in adult patients - A single-center experience

Oncologist

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1135-1142

  Mayer, Frank ^a   Aebert, Hermann ^a   Rudert, Maximilian ^a   Königsrainer, Alfred ^a   Horger, Marius ^a   Kanz, Lothar ^a   Bamberg, Michael ^a   Ziemer, Gerhard ^a   Hartmann, Jörg Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Neoadjuvant; Palliative; Radiotherapy; Sarcomas of the heart great vessels; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; AORTA; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SARCOMA; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SARCOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AORTA DISEASE; CAVA VEIN; ECONOMICS; GERMANY; HEART TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADULT; AORTIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PULMONARY ARTERY; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS; VENAE CAVAE;

EID: 35548989351     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.12-9-1134     Document Type: Article

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