Pediatric brain tumors in a 10-year period from 1986 to 1995 in Yamaguchi prefecture: Epidemiology and comparison with adult brain tumors

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 130-134

  Nomura, Sadahiro ^a,b   Nishizaki, Takafumi ^a   Yamashita, Katsuhiro ^a   Ito, Haruhide ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Epidemiology; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031904674     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028636     Document Type: Article

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