Large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix

Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) of the uterine cervix is a rare and aggressive malignancy with poor prognosis even in its early stage, despite multimodality treatment strategy. Here, we report a case of a woman with clinical polypoid stage IB LCNEC of the cervix, which was detected in he...

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Autores principales: Yoseph, Benyam, Chi, Ming, Truskinovsky, Alexander M., Dudek, Arkadiusz Z.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3325745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22532916
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2012.e18
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author Yoseph, Benyam
Chi, Ming
Truskinovsky, Alexander M.
Dudek, Arkadiusz Z.
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description Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) of the uterine cervix is a rare and aggressive malignancy with poor prognosis even in its early stage, despite multimodality treatment strategy. Here, we report a case of a woman with clinical polypoid stage IB LCNEC of the cervix, which was detected in her 6-week postpartum checkup. A literature review was also conducted to evaluate current therapeutic approaches and potential new strategies.
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spelling pubmed-33257452012-04-24 Large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix Yoseph, Benyam Chi, Ming Truskinovsky, Alexander M. Dudek, Arkadiusz Z. Rare Tumors Case Report Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) of the uterine cervix is a rare and aggressive malignancy with poor prognosis even in its early stage, despite multimodality treatment strategy. Here, we report a case of a woman with clinical polypoid stage IB LCNEC of the cervix, which was detected in her 6-week postpartum checkup. A literature review was also conducted to evaluate current therapeutic approaches and potential new strategies. PAGEPress Publications 2012-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3325745/ /pubmed/22532916 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2012.e18 Text en ©Copyright B. Yoseph et al., 2012 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Licensee PAGEPress, Italy
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title_short Large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3325745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22532916
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2012.e18
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