Thoracic neuroblastoma: Outcome of incomplete resection

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 714-718

  Horiuchi, Atsushi ^a,b   Muraji, Toshihiro ^b   Tsugawa, Chikara ^b   Nishijima, Eiji ^b   Satho, Shiiki ^b   Takamizawa, Shigeru ^b   Misu, Hideo ^c   Mabuchi, Osamu ^c   Kanagawa, Kimio ^c   Fujita, Masayuki ^c  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Department of Pediatric Surgery   (Japan)

^c Kobe Children's Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological marker; Surgery; Thoracic neuroblastoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MARGIN; THORAX NEUROBLASTOMA; THORAX TUMOR;

FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 7644241920     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-003-1049-7     Document Type: Article

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