Organ Recipients Suffering From Undifferentiated Neuroendocrine Small-Cell Carcinoma of Donor Origin: A Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2639-2642

  Foltys, D ^a   Linkermann, A ^c   Heumann, A ^a   Hoppe Lotichius, M ^a   Heise, M ^a   Schad, A ^a   Schneider, J ^a   Bender, K ^a   Schmid, M ^b   Mauer, D ^b   Peixoto, N ^d   Otto, G ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Stiftung Organspende   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECHOGRAPHY; FATALITY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ETOPOSIDE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEPHRECTOMY; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 68949215051     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.06.026     Document Type: Article

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