Adjuvant electrochemotherapy for the treatment of incompletely excised spontaneous canine sarcomas

In Vivo

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 819-822

  Spugnini, Enrico P ^a,e   Vincenzi, Bruno ^b   Citro, Gennaro ^a   Santini, Daniele ^b   Dotsinsky, Ivan ^e   Mudrov, Nikolay ^e   Montesarchio, Vincenzo ^c   Laieta, Maria Teresa ^d   Esposito, Vincenzo ^c   Baldi, Alfonso ^a,d  

^a REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c AO Dei Colli Hospital for Infectious Diseases D Cotugno   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^e CENTRE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Biphasic pulses; Bleomycin; Dog electrochemotherapy; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER REGRESSION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEBRIDEMENT; DOG DISEASE; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTROPORATION; EXCISION; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROFIBROSARCOMA; NONHUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT CANCER; RETREATMENT; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 35648964148     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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