Combination chemotherapy (cisplatin, vinblastin) and low-dose irradiation in the treatment of pineal parenchymal cell tumors

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 564-569

  Kurisaka, Masahiro ^a   Arisawa, Masahiko ^a   Mori, Takahisa ^a   Sakamoto, Takashi ^a   Seike, Masato ^a   Mori, Koreaki ^a   Okada, Taisuke ^a   Wakiguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Kurashige, Takanobu ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bleomycin; Cisplatin; Low dose irradiation; Pineoblastoma; Pineocytoma; Vinblastin

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PARENCHYMA; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PINEAL GLAND; PINEALOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 0031727846     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050273     Document Type: Article

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