Mixed germ cell tumor metastatic to the skin: Case report and literature review

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chuang, Kun Lung ^a,b   Liaw, Chaung Chi ^a   Ueng, Shir H ^a   Liao, Shuen Kuei ^b   Pang, See Tong ^a   Chang, Ying Hsu ^a   Chuang, Heng Chang ^a   Chuang, Cheng Keng ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BLEOMYCIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; GERM CELL TUMOR; GOBLET CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; ORCHIECTOMY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; SCALP; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN METASTASIS; SKIN NODULE; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TUMOR CELL; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; ORCHIECTOMY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952318027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-8-21     Document Type: Article

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