Local control and distant metastasis after electrochemotherapy of a canine anal melanoma

In Vivo

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 897-900

  Spugnini, Enrico P ^a,b   Filipponi, Marino ^c   Romani, Luca ^c   Dotsinsky, Ivan ^a   Mudrov, Nikolay ^a   Baroni, Adone ^d   Ruocco, Eleonora ^d   Laieta, Maria Teresa ^d   Montesarchio, Vincenzo ^e   Cassandro, Roberto ^f   Citro, Gennaro ^b   Baldi, Alfonso ^a,d  

^a CENTRE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

^b REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c Centro Veterinario Casal Monastero   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

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

^f San Giuseppe Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anal melanoma; Biphasic pulses; Cisplatin; Dog; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; HYALURONIDASE; LIDOCAINE; MELAN A; MELPHALAN;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANUS TUMOR; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOG DISEASE; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 35648971647     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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