Specific organ metastases and survival in small cell lung cancer

Oncology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 617-620

  Nakazawa, Kensuke ^a   Kurishima, Koichi ^a   Tamura, Tomohiro ^a   Kagohashi, Katsunori ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroichi ^b   Hiroaki, Satoh ^a   Hizawa, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TSUKUBA MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metastasis; Small cell lung cancer; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

EID: 84864713290     PISSN: 17921074     EISSN: 17921082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2012.792     Document Type: Article

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