Preoperative radiation therapy and chemotherapy for pulmonary blastoma: A case report

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 282-283

  Zagar, Timothy M ^a   Blackwell, Susan ^a   Crawford, Jeffrey ^a   Damico, Thomas ^a   Christensen, Jared D ^a   Sporn, Thomas A ^a   Kelsey, Chris R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGITIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG BLASTOMA; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PLEURAL FIBROSIS; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 77649120085     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181c420e1     Document Type: Article

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