Placental-site trophoblastic tumors: A case of resistant pulmonary metastasis

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 171-175

  Cole, Michael E ^a   Broaddus, Russell ^b   Thaker, Premal ^c   Landen, Charles ^b   Freedman, Ralph S ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth factor receptors; Human placental lactogen; Immunohistochemical; Placenta; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ETOPOSIDE; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG RESECTION; NEUTROPENIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG SURGERY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED TUMOR, MALIGNANT; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR, PLACENTAL SITE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 40249117038     PISSN: 17434297     EISSN: 17434300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc1042     Document Type: Article

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