Definitive classes of childhood supratentorial neuroglial tumors

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 126-139

  Gilles, F H ^a   Leviton, A ^b   Tavare C J ^a   Adelman, L ^c   Rorke, L B ^d   Sobel, E L ^a   Hedley Whyte, E T ^e   Davis, R L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Child; Classification; Clusters; Factor scores; Supratentorial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD CANCER; GLIOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0034000394     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100249910017     Document Type: Article

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