A complete remission of sclerosing rhabdomyosarcoma with multiple lung and bone metastases treated with multi-agent chemotherapy and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT): A case report

Anticancer Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4 C, 2008, Pages 2361-2367

  Sakayama, Kenshi ^a   Tauchi, Hisamichi ^a   Sugawara, Yoshifumi ^a   Kidani, Teruki ^a   Tokuda, Kiriko ^a   Miyazaki, Tatsuhiko ^a   Watanabe, Yuji ^a   Yamamoto, Haruyasu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Metastasis; Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation; Sclerosing rhabdomyosarcoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; GADOLINIUM; IFOSFAMIDE; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; OXIDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PIRARUBICIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG MEGADOSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LEG SWELLING; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCLEROSING RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; THERAPY EFFECT; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LEG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA;

EID: 48849092342     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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