Histologically confirmed pineal tumors and other germ cell tumors of the brain

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2564-2571

  Schild, Steven E ^a   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^b   Haddock, Michael G ^b   Wong, William W ^a   Lyons, Mark K ^a   Marks, Lawrence B ^c   Norman, Margaret G ^d   Burger, Peter C ^e  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

chemotherapy; germ cell tumors; pineal parenchymal tumors; pineal tumors; pineoblastoma; pineocytoma; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHORIOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TERATOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEWBORN; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERATOMA; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PINEAL GLAND; PINEALOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029837114     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19961215)78:12<2564::AID-CNCR16>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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