Low-grade disseminated astrocytoma in infancy;Astrocitomas de bajo grado diseminados en la infancia

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 25, Issue 142, 1997, Pages 877-881

  Perez M J ^a   Lorenzo, G ^a   Munoz A ^a   Otheo De Tejada, E ^a   Maldonado, M S ^a   Aparicio, J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Childhood; Leptomeningeal dissemination; Low grade astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ETOPOSIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEPTOMENINX; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031003229     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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