Desmoplastic small round cell tumour successfully treated with caffeine-assisted chemotherapy: A case report and review of the literature

Anticancer Research

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3769-3774

  Miwa, Shinji ^a   Kitamura, Seiko ^a   Shirai, Toshiharu ^a   Hayashi, Katsuhiro ^a   Nishida, Hideji ^a   Takeuchi, Akihiko ^a   Nojima, Takayuki ^b   Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus; Caffeine assisted chemotherapy; Desmoplastic small round cell tumour

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GADOLINIUM; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESMOPLASTIC SMALL ROUND CELL TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTIGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; SARCOMA, SMALL CELL;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CAFFEINE; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY; SARCOMA, SMALL CELL;

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