Transitional cell carcinoma of the ovary (review)

Oncology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-6

  Ichigo, Satoshi ^a   Takagi, Hiroshi ^a   Matsunami, Kazutoshi ^a   Murase, Takayuki ^a   Ikeda, Tsuneko ^a   Imai, Atsushi ^a  

^a Matsunami General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metastatic ovarian cancer; Ovary; Paclitaxel; Staging surgery; Transitional cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; CISPLATIN; PROTEIN P63; UROPLAKIN 3; UVOMORULIN; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; ENTEROPATHY; HUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVARY METASTASIS; OVARY TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; PELVIC EXAMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; UTERUS BLEEDING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84855219462     PISSN: 17921074     EISSN: 17921082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2011.453     Document Type: Article

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