Outcome after radiotherapy of primary spinal cord glial tumors

Radiation Oncology Investigations

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 276-280

  McLaughlin, Mark P ^a   Buatti, John M ^a,b   Marcus Jr , Robert B ^a   Maria, Bernard L ^a   Mickle, Parker J ^a   Kedar, Amos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Ependymoma; Radiotherapy; Spinal cord neoplasms; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032418870     PISSN: 10657541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6823(1998)6:6<276::AID-ROI5>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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