Clinical management of ovarian small-cell carcinoma of the hypercalcemic type: A proposal for conservative surgery in an advanced stage of disease

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 348-353

  Dykgraaf, Ramon H M ^a   De Jong, Diederick ^b,d   Van Veen, Mirjam ^a   Ewing Graham, Patricia C ^c   Helmerhorst, Theo J M ^a   Van Der Burg, Maria E L ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Departments of Radiation Oncology and Medical Biophysics   (Canada)

^c JOSEPHINE NEFKENS INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conservative surgery; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Ovarian cancer; Small cell carcinoma of the hypercalcemic type; Survival

Indexed keywords

ALTRETAMINE; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; INHIBIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN P53; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSGERMINOMA; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOSIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY SMALL CELL CARCINOMA OF THE HYPERCALCEMIC TYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; TUMOR CELL;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149170048     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/IGC.0b013e3181a1a116     Document Type: Article

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