Schistosoma japonicum infection and rectal carcinoid tumour: Underreported coincidence or neglected association?

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1289-1291

  Zanger, P ^a   Habscheid, W ^b   Kremsner, P G ^a   Dahm, H H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Paracelsus Krankenhaus Ruit   (Germany)

^c Institut Fr Pathologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infectious disease epidemiology; parasitic disease epidemiology and control

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PRAZIQUANTEL; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RECTUM TUMOR; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; PARASITOLOGY;

ADULT; CARCINOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA;

EID: 77956643926     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095026880999152X     Document Type: Article

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