Tumor volume and growth kinetics in hypothalamic-chiasmatic pediatric low grade gliomas

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 312-319

  Lazareff, Jorge A ^a   Suwinski, Rafal ^a   De Rosa, Roberto ^a   Olmstead, Charles E ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gompertz; Growth kinetics; Low grade astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GLIOMA; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0032828228     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028817     Document Type: Article

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