Splenic metastases - Not a frequent problem, but an underestimate location of metastases: Epidemiology and course

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 667-671

  Sauer, Jörg ^a   Sobolewski, Karin ^b   Dommisch, Klaus ^a  

^a HELIOS KLINIKEN SCHWERIN   (Germany)

^b Tumorzentrum Schwerin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Malignoma; Metastasis; Spleen; Surgery; Survival; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC METASTASIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 63549093107     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00432-008-0502-3     Document Type: Article

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