Combined treatment with chemotherapy and radiation therapy for intracranial germ cell tumors

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 59-62

  Matsutani, Masao ^a,b   Sano, Keiji ^a   Takakura, Kintomo ^a   Fujimaki, Takamitsu ^a   Nakamura, Osamu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Chemotherapy; Germ cell tumor; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; VINBLASTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PINEALOMA; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031810149     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050176     Document Type: Article

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