Successful surgical management of recurrent urachal adenocarcinoma: A case report

Urachal carcinoma is a rare neoplasm for which there is a lack of a standard effective chemotherapeutic treatment. There is also no standard treatment available for recurrent metastatic urachal carcinoma and the prognosis is generally poor. We report a case of urachal carcinoma where the patient ach...

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Autores principales: Somiya, Shinya, Aoyama, Akihiro, Yamasaki, Toshinari, Inoue, Takahiro, Ogawa, Osamu, Kobayashi, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32322529
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101196
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Sumario:Urachal carcinoma is a rare neoplasm for which there is a lack of a standard effective chemotherapeutic treatment. There is also no standard treatment available for recurrent metastatic urachal carcinoma and the prognosis is generally poor. We report a case of urachal carcinoma where the patient achieved long-term disease-free survival after repeated surgeries for recurrent lung metastases.

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