Prostate small cell carcinoma and skin metastases: A rare entity

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 250-252

  Yildirim, Yesim ^a   Akcay, Yesim ^a   Ozyilkan, Ozgur ^a   Celasun, Bulent ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Prostate carcinoma; Skin metastases; Small cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER GROWTH; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEEDLE BIOPSY; ORCHIECTOMY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SKIN METASTASIS; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 42149157184     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000117801     Document Type: Article

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