The significance of the site of origin in primary peritoneal carcinosarcoma: case report and literature review

Primary peritoneal carcinomas are rare, highly aggressive malignant neoplasms containing both sarcomatous and carcinomatous elements. Surgical debulking is the mainstay of treatment for primary peritoneal carcinomas. Systemic chemotherapy is advised in all cases because of the early spreading of the...

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Autores principales: Rajanbabu, Anupama, Zahoor Ahmad, Sheikh, D K, Vijaykumar, K, Pavithran, Kuriakose, Santhosh
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Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23589725
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2013.295
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author Rajanbabu, Anupama
Zahoor Ahmad, Sheikh
D K, Vijaykumar
K, Pavithran
Kuriakose, Santhosh
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description Primary peritoneal carcinomas are rare, highly aggressive malignant neoplasms containing both sarcomatous and carcinomatous elements. Surgical debulking is the mainstay of treatment for primary peritoneal carcinomas. Systemic chemotherapy is advised in all cases because of the early spreading of these tumours. We report on a case of primary peritoneal carcinosarcoma occurring in a 22-year-old woman.
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spelling pubmed-36224472013-04-15 The significance of the site of origin in primary peritoneal carcinosarcoma: case report and literature review Rajanbabu, Anupama Zahoor Ahmad, Sheikh D K, Vijaykumar K, Pavithran Kuriakose, Santhosh Ecancermedicalscience Case Report Primary peritoneal carcinomas are rare, highly aggressive malignant neoplasms containing both sarcomatous and carcinomatous elements. Surgical debulking is the mainstay of treatment for primary peritoneal carcinomas. Systemic chemotherapy is advised in all cases because of the early spreading of these tumours. We report on a case of primary peritoneal carcinosarcoma occurring in a 22-year-old woman. Cancer Intelligence 2013-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3622447/ /pubmed/23589725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2013.295 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622447/
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