Stereotactic radiosurgery for glial neoplasms of childhood

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 696-702

  Grabb, Paul A ^a,b   Lunsford, L Dade ^a   Albright, A Leland ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a   Flickinger, John C ^a  

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

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Ependymoma; Gamma knife; Glioma; Radiation; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN EDEMA; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COBALT THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

EID: 0029869067     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/00006123-199604000-00013     Document Type: Article

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