Cisplatin/vincristine chemotherapy for hypothalamic/visual pathway astrocytomas in young children

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-270

  Kato, Tsutomu ^a   Sawamura, Yutaka ^a   Tada, Mitsuhiro ^a   Ikeda, Jun ^a   Ishii, Nobuaki ^a   Abe, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Children; Hypothalamus; Infant; Pilocytic astrocytoma; Visual pathway

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BLOOD TOXICITY; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DIENCEPHALON; DRUG EFFICACY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTOTOXICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR REGRESSION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0031930249     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005866021835     Document Type: Article

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