Childhood Wilms'tumour: Prognostic factors in North Central Nigeria

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 222-225

  Uba, A F ^a   Chirdan, L B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Children; Nephroblastoma; Northern Nigeria; Prognosis; Wilms' tumour

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ADOLESCENT; ADVANCED CANCER; BLADDER METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NIGERIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NIGERIA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VINCRISTINE; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 38049148570     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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