Intraoperative radiation therapy and chemotherapy for huge choroid plexus carcinoma in an infant - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 179-184

  Kumabe, Toshihiro ^a   Tominaga, Teiji ^a   Kondo, Takeo ^a   Yoshimoto, Takashi ^a   Kayama, Takamasa ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

chemosensitivity test; chemotherapy; choroid plexus carcinoma; intraoperative radiation therapy; magnetic resonance imaging; operation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHOROID PLEXUS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 0029913231     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.179     Document Type: Article

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