Benign metastasising leiomyoma: A progressive disease despite chemical and surgical castration

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Silva, Inês ^a   Tomé, Vera ^a   Oliveira, João ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DE ONCOLOGIA DE LISBOA FRANCISCO GENTIL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOSERELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BENIGN METASTASISING LEIOMYOMA; BILATERAL ADNEXECTOMY; CASE REPORT; CASTRATION; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LESION; LUNG METASTASIS; MENORRHAGIA AND METRORRHAGIA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA;

EID: 84860904298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.01.2012.5505     Document Type: Article

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