Is the ancillary chemotherapy approach of any value in the treatment of infratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors with surgery and radiotherapy?

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 109-112

  Rivera Luna, Roberto ^a   Gomez Martínez, Ricardo ^a   Leal Leal, Carlos ^a   Cardenas Cardos, Rocio ^a   Castellanos Toledo, Araceli ^a   Rueda Franco, Fernando ^a   Marx Bracho, Alfonso ^a   Lanche Guevara, Teresa ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Brain tumor; Medulloblastoma; PNET; Survival; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; MANNITOL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE, PERIPHERAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031838287     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050189     Document Type: Article

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