Craniopharyngeomas, results in children and adolescents operated through a transsphenoidal approach compared with an intracranial approach

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 33, Issue , 1999, Pages 114-122

  Rilliet, Bénédict ^a,d   De Paul Djientcheu, Vincent ^a   Vernet, Olivier ^a   Montes, José ^b   Farmer, Jean Paul ^b   Bertrand, Gilles ^c  

^a Service de Neurochirurgie   (Switzerland)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPHENOID; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID BONE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032623329     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000061228     Document Type: Article

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