Adjuvant combined modality therapy for malignant meningiomas

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 733-736

  Chamberlain, Marc C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

chemotherapy; malignant meningioma; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MALIGNANT MENINGIOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029936684     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.84.5.0733     Document Type: Article

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