Successful treatment of primary cardiac angiosarcoma with docetaxel and radiotherapy

Angiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 368-371

  Nakamura Horigome, Miki ^a   Koyama, Jun ^a   Eizawa, Takayuki ^a   Kasai, Hiroki ^a   Kumazaki, Setsuo ^a   Tsutsui, Hiroshi ^a   Koiwai, Keiichiro ^a   Oguchi, Kazuhiro ^b   Kinoshita, Osamu ^a   Ikeda, Uichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Specified Medical Corporation Jisenkai Aizawa Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Docetaxel; Primary cardiac angiosarcoma; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DOCETAXEL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ESOPHAGITIS; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGITIS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TAXOIDS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44849142029     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319707308212     Document Type: Article

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