Second-look surgery for incompletely resected fourth ventricle ependymomas: Technical case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 856-860

  Foreman, Nicholas K ^a,c   Love, Seth ^a   Gill, Steven S ^a   Coakham, Hugh B ^b  

^a FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Ependymoma; Fourth ventricle; Subsequent surgery

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND LOOK SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPENDYMOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; REOPERATION;

EID: 0030946293     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199704000-00042     Document Type: Article

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