A case of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis from esophageal basaloid carcinoma diagnosed by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction for carcinoembryonic antigen.

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Published in J Gastroenterol on January 01, 2005

Authors

Hiroshi Okumura1, Shoji Natsugoe, Naoya Yokomakura, Yuko Mataki, Yusei Haraguchi, Hironori Sakita, Yukio Mihara, Masataka Matsumoto, Shin-Ichi Imamura, Jun-Ichi Kuratsu, Sumiya Ishigami, Sonshin Takao, Takashi Aikou

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgical Oncology, Digestive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kagoshima University, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan.

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