Multimodality therapy for large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the thymus

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Ose, Naoko ^a   Inoue, Masayoshi ^b   Morii, Eiichi ^b   Shintani, Yasushi ^b   Sawabata, Noriyoshi ^b   Okumura, Meinoshin ^b  

^a TONEYAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCINTISCANNING; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG RESPONSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARGE CELL NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS CANCER; THYMUS LARGE CELL NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

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ADULT; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, NEUROENDOCRINE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84885208314     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.04.107     Document Type: Article

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