Preliminary results of conformal radiation therapy for medulloblastoma

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 177-187

  Merchant, Thomas E ^a   Happersett, Laura ^b   Finlay, Jonathan L ^c   Leibel, Steven A ^c  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL IRRADIATION; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033157284     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/1.3.177     Document Type: Article

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