Small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-136

  Ismaili, Nabil ^a   Ghanem, Samia ^a   Mellas, Nawfel ^a   Afqir, Said ^a   Taleb, Meriem ^a   Amrani, Meryem ^a   Gamra, Lamia ^a   Errihani, Hassan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Chemotherapy; Small cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BLADDER SURGERY; BLADDER WALL; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67749108606     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.52790     Document Type: Article

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