Brain Tumors in Children

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 331, Issue 22, 1994, Pages 1500-1507

  Pollack, Ian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GROWTH HORMONE; HEMOPOIETIC GROWTH FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; LOMUSTINE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD TOXICITY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND CANCER; SEIZURE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GLIOMA; HUMAN;

EID: 0027944927     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199412013312207     Document Type: Review

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