Gastric yolk sac tumor complicated with beta-human chorionic gonadotropin-producing metastases

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 2145-2149

  Tahara, Hiroki ^a,b   Hirokawa, Tomoyuki ^b   Oyama, Tatsuya ^b   Naganuma, Atsushi ^b   Maruta, Sakae ^b   Ban, Satoshi ^b   Yoshida, Katsue ^b   Takagi, Hitoshi ^a   Mori, Masatomo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kiryu Kosei General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpha fetoprotein(AFP) producing gastric cancer; Beta human chorionic gonadotropin ( hCG) producing tumor; Gastric yolk sactumor

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CREATININE; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; D DIMER; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NITROGEN; UREA;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROSCOPY; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH TUMOR; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

AGED; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 61749093455     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.1385     Document Type: Article

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