A case of advanced mucinous cystadenocarcinoma of the pancreas with peritoneal dissemination responding to gemcitabine

Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 995-998

  Shimada, Kazunori ^a   Iwase, Kazuhiro ^a   Aono, Toyokazu ^a   Takeda, Shin Ichi ^a   Yoshida, Hiroshi ^a   Koma, Masaru ^a   Nomura, Masaya ^a   Nishikawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Tamagawa, Hiroshi ^a   Matsuda, Chu ^a   Fushimi, Hiroaki ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gemcitabine; Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma; Mucinous cystic neoplasm

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; DUPAN 2; GEMCITABINE; SPAN 1; TUMOR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOPENIA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVARY; PANCREAS CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; RECTOUTERINE POUCH; SPLENECTOMY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 79959854516     PISSN: 03850684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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