The management of desmoplastic neuroepithelial tumours in childhood

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 8-14

  Mallucci, Conor ^a   Lellouch Tubiana, Arielle ^a   Salazar, Cristian ^a   Cinalli, Giuseppe ^a   Renier, Dominique ^a   Sainte Rose, Christian ^a   Pierre Kahn, Alain ^a   Zerah, Michel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Brain tumour; Desmoplastic; Ganglioglioma; Infantile; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEMIPLEGIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MACROCEPHALY; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 0034010104     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00007280     Document Type: Article

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