Pineal tumors: Experience with 48 cases over 10 years

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 53-58

  Cho, Byung Kyu ^a   Wang, Kyu Chang ^a   Nam, Do Hyun ^a   Kim, Dong Gyu ^a   Jung, Hee Won ^a   Kim, Hyun Jib ^a   Han, Dae Hee ^a   Choi, Kil Soo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Germ cell tumor; Incidence; Outcome; Pineal region tumor; Pineoblastoma; Pineocytoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; JAPAN; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PINEAL GLAND; PINEALOMA; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031810083     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050175     Document Type: Article

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