Refractory pediatric nonrhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma associated with ectopic production of beta hCG and hypercalcemia induced by PTHrP

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1244-1246

  Inoue, Nami ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyoshi ^a   Takehara, Hiroo ^a   Hamazaki, Minoru ^b   Kagami, Shoji ^a  

^a TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beta human chorionic gonadotropin; Hypercalcemia; Paraneoplastic manifestation; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBOPLATIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; IRINOTECAN; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN; VINCRISTINE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NONRHABDOMYOSARCOMA SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80053921978     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.23271     Document Type: Article

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