"Atypical steroid response" in a pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 721-726

  Sacco, Oliviero ^a   Gambini, Claudio ^a   Gardella, Chiara ^a   Tomà, Paolo ^a   Rossi, Umberto G ^b   Jasonni, Vincenzo ^a   Bush, Andrew ^c   Rossi, Giovanni A ^a  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atelectasis; Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor; Mediastinal mass; Plasma cell granuloma

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINBLASTINE;

ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG GRANULOMA; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; METHOTREXATE; NEOPLASMS, MUSCLE TISSUE; PREDNISONE; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 77954435799     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.21237     Document Type: Article

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