Use of adjuvant ICE chemotherapy in the treatment of anaplastic ependymomas

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 590-595

  Fouladi, Maryam ^a   Baruchel, Sylvain ^a   Chan, Helen ^a   Grant, Ron ^a   Malkin, David ^a   Weitzman, Sheila ^a   Greenberg, Mark L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Ependymoma; Prognosis; Radiotherapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGING; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPENDYMOMA; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; INFANT; MALE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031788572     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050278     Document Type: Article

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