Adrenocortical Carcinoma in an Adult: Eight Months without Recurrence after Resection and Adjuvant Chemotherapy

Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare, aggressive malignancy that features a correspondingly poor prognosis. The disease accounts for 0.2% of all malignancies and despite multimodal therapies, its prognosis remains poor, with a mean survival of <30 months. This paper reports on a patient submitted t...

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Autores principales: Siosaki, Marcos Duarte, Pelafsky, Leonardo, Fonseca Siosaki, Ana Tarsila, Garcia, Leonardo Rufino
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Published online: March, 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4000306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24803899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000362161
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author Siosaki, Marcos Duarte
Pelafsky, Leonardo
Fonseca Siosaki, Ana Tarsila
Garcia, Leonardo Rufino
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description Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare, aggressive malignancy that features a correspondingly poor prognosis. The disease accounts for 0.2% of all malignancies and despite multimodal therapies, its prognosis remains poor, with a mean survival of <30 months. This paper reports on a patient submitted to surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy for adrenocortical carcinoma with an ongoing follow-up of 8 months after surgery and no signs of recurrence.
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spelling pubmed-40003062014-05-06 Adrenocortical Carcinoma in an Adult: Eight Months without Recurrence after Resection and Adjuvant Chemotherapy Siosaki, Marcos Duarte Pelafsky, Leonardo Fonseca Siosaki, Ana Tarsila Garcia, Leonardo Rufino Case Rep Oncol Published online: March, 2014 Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare, aggressive malignancy that features a correspondingly poor prognosis. The disease accounts for 0.2% of all malignancies and despite multimodal therapies, its prognosis remains poor, with a mean survival of <30 months. This paper reports on a patient submitted to surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy for adrenocortical carcinoma with an ongoing follow-up of 8 months after surgery and no signs of recurrence. S. Karger AG 2014-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4000306/ /pubmed/24803899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000362161 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: March, 2014
Siosaki, Marcos Duarte
Pelafsky, Leonardo
Fonseca Siosaki, Ana Tarsila
Garcia, Leonardo Rufino
Adrenocortical Carcinoma in an Adult: Eight Months without Recurrence after Resection and Adjuvant Chemotherapy
title Adrenocortical Carcinoma in an Adult: Eight Months without Recurrence after Resection and Adjuvant Chemotherapy
title_full Adrenocortical Carcinoma in an Adult: Eight Months without Recurrence after Resection and Adjuvant Chemotherapy
title_fullStr Adrenocortical Carcinoma in an Adult: Eight Months without Recurrence after Resection and Adjuvant Chemotherapy
title_full_unstemmed Adrenocortical Carcinoma in an Adult: Eight Months without Recurrence after Resection and Adjuvant Chemotherapy
title_short Adrenocortical Carcinoma in an Adult: Eight Months without Recurrence after Resection and Adjuvant Chemotherapy
title_sort adrenocortical carcinoma in an adult: eight months without recurrence after resection and adjuvant chemotherapy
topic Published online: March, 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4000306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24803899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000362161
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