Successful rescue of an apocrine gland carcinoma metastatic to the cervical lymph nodes by mitoxantrone coupled with trains of permeabilizing electrical pulses (Electrochemotherapy)

In Vivo

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-54

  Spugnini, Enrico P ^a,d   Dotsinsky, Ivan ^d   Mudrov, Nikolay ^d   De Luca, Angelo ^b   Codini, Carlo ^b   Citro, Gennaro ^a   D'Avino, Alfredo ^c   Baldi, Alfonso ^c  

^a REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b Ambulatorio Veterinario Associato Dr De Luca and Dr Codini   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^d CENTRE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Biphasic pulses; Carcinoma; Cisplatin; Electrochemotherapy; Mitoxantrone

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; MITOXANTRONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOCRINE GLAND; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOG DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTROPORATION; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SWEAT GLAND CARCINOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 40749086034     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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