Primary adrenal gland carcinosarcoma associated with metastatic rectal cancer: A hitherto unreported collision tumor

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Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bertolini, Federica ^a   Rossi, Giulio ^a   Fiocchi, Federica ^a   Giacometti, Marco ^a   Fontana, Annalisa ^a   Gibertini, Maria Chiara ^a   Roncucci, Luca ^a   Luppi, Gabriele ^a   Torricelli, Pietro ^a   Rossi, Aldo ^a   Conte, Pier Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collision tumor; Familial adenomatous polyposis; Primary adrenal gland carcinosarcoma

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CALRETININ; CAPECITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; INHIBIN A; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL COLON POLYPOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOGENE K RAS; POINT MUTATION; PRIMARY ADRENAL GLAND CARCINOSARCOMA; RECTUM CANCER; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 83055163365     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: 20382529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089161109700526     Document Type: Article

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