Clinical case report and literature review: Metachronous colorectal splenic metastases

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 445-447

  Gasent Blesa, Joan Manel ^a   De La Morena, Eduardo ^a   Laforga Canales, Juan Bautista ^a   Vilaseca Martínez, Domingo ^a   Vázquez, Carlos ^b  

^a HOSPITAL MARINA ALTA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CEA; Colon cancer; PET; Splenic metastases

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SPLEEN TUMOR; SPLENECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 53749099318     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: 16993055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-008-0230-9     Document Type: Review

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