Spontaneous regression of small cell lung cancer combined with cancer associated retinopathy

Lung Cancer

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 73-76

  Kitai, Hidenori ^a   Sakakibara Konishi, Jun ^a   Oizumi, Satoshi ^a   Hirohashi, Yoshihiko ^b   Saito, Wataru ^c   Kanda, Atsuhiro ^c   Sato, Noriyuki ^b   Nishimura, Masaharu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer associated retinopathy; Cytotoxic T lymphocytes; Immnologic reaction; Recoverin; Small cell lung cancer; Spontaneous regression

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; PREDNISOLONE; RECOVERIN; RECOVERIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CANCER ASSOCIATED RETINOPATHY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOPATHY; SCOTOMA; SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR IMMUNITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WESTERN BLOTTING; COMPLICATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; RETINAL DISEASES; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR REGRESSION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETINAL DISEASES; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84922263430     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: 18728332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2014.10.015     Document Type: Article

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