Response of pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma to surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Long, Hong Qing ^a   Qin, Qin ^a   Xie, Cong Hua ^b  

^a HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; VIMENTIN;

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG ARTERY INTIMA SARCOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG METASTASIS; MESENCHYMOMA; NAUSEA; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RECURRENT CANCER; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL TIME; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VASCULAR TUMOR; VOMITING;

EID: 48149086360     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-2-217     Document Type: Article

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