Neoadjuvant therapy in a patient with clival plasmacytoma associated with multiple myeloma: a case report

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 403-407

  Yamaguchi, Shigeru ^a   Terasaka, Shunsuke ^a   Ando, Sachiko ^b   Shinohara, Toshiya ^b   Iwasaki, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TEINE KEIJINKAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clivus; Multiple myeloma; Neoadjuvant therapy; Plasmacytoma; Skull base

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; MELPHALAN; THALIDOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLIVUS PLASMACYTOMA; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASMACYTOMA; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PLASMACYTOMA; SALVAGE THERAPY; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 51349108858     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2007.10.020     Document Type: Article

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