Survival of children with infratentorial neuroglial tumors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-56

  Sobel, Eugene L ^a   Gilles, Floyd H ^a,f   Leviton, Alan ^b   Tavaré, C Jane ^a   Hedley Whyte, E Tessa ^c   Rorke, Lucy B ^d   Adelman, Lester S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Child; Factor scores; Neuroglial; Survival probability; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHILD; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029937245     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199607000-00010     Document Type: Article

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