Variations in the natural history and survival of patients with supratentorial low-grade astrocytomas

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 872-879

  Piepmeier, Joseph ^a   Christopher, Susan ^a   Spencer, Dennis ^a   Byrne, Thomas ^a   Kim, Jung ^a   Knisel, Jonathan P ^a   Lacy, Jill ^a   Tsukerman, Liliya ^a   Makuch, Robert ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Low grade astrocytoma; Natural history; Surgery; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029918567     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199605000-00002     Document Type: Article

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