Long-term survival achieved by repeated resections of metachronous pulmonary and adrenal metastases of α-fetoprotein-producing gastric cancer: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 784-787

  Nakahashi, Chigusa ^a,b   Kinoshita, Taira ^a   Konishi, Masaru ^a   Nakagohri, Toshio ^a   Inoue, Kazuto ^a   Oda, Tatsuya ^a,b   Yoshida, Junji ^a   Hasebe, Takahiro ^c   Ochiai, Atsushi ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetoprotein producing gastric cancer; Metachronous adrenal metastasis; Metachronous pulmonary metastasis; Surgical resection

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; REOPERATION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 4444353709     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2796-3     Document Type: Article

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