Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma: What do we really know about it

Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2033-2045

  Giannini, Caterina ^a   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^a   Burger, Peter C ^b   Brat, Daniel J ^b   Wollan, Peter C ^a   Lach, Bolek ^c   O'Neill, Brian P ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glioma; Natural history; Neurooncology; Pathology; Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITOSIS INDEX; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033135352     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990501)85:9<2033::AID-CNCR22>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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