Small cell carcinoma of vulva: Curative multimodal treatment in face of resistance to initial standard chemotherapy

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 521-524

  Eckert, Franziska ^a   Fehm, Tanja ^a   Bamberg, Michael ^a   Müller, Arndt Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma; Hyperthermia; Radiochemotherapy; Vulva

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; ETOPOSIDE;

ABSCESS; ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; ANUS SPHINCTER; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BARTHOLIN GLAND; BARTHOLINITIS; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFECATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; MICTURITION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEPHROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS FLOOR; RADIATION DOSE; RECTAL TOXICITY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TUMOR BIOPSY; URETHRA; VAGINA; VULVA CARCINOMA; WHOLE BODY CT; WOUND;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957770403     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2160-z     Document Type: Article

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