Spontaneous regression of pulmonary metastases from a malignant phyllodes tumor

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 915-917

  Sadatomo, Ai ^a   Hozumi, Yasuo ^b   Shiozawa, Mikio ^a,b   Hirashima, Yuki ^a   Koinuma, Koji ^a   Kurihara, Katsumi ^a  

^a Oyama Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast surgery; Lung metastases; Malignant phyllodes tumor; Spontaneous regression

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOSARCOMA PHYLLOIDES; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PHYLLODES TUMOR; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960070961     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyr056     Document Type: Article

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