Treatment of patients with primary glioblastoma multiforme with standard postoperative radiotherapy and radiosurgical boost: Prognostic factors and long-term outcome

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 72-77

  Shrieve, Dennis C ^a   Alexander III, Eben ^b   Black, Peter McL ^b   Wen, Patrick Y ^b   Fine, Howard A ^b   Kooy, Hanne M ^b   Loeffler, Jay S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Glioblastoma multiforme; Prognosis; Radiation therapy; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0032900389     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1999.90.1.0072     Document Type: Article

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