The use of chemotherapy to facilitate surgical resection in pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma: Experience in a single case

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 563-566

  Cartmill, M ^a   Hewitt, M ^a   Walker, D ^a   Lowe, J ^a   Jaspan, T ^a   Punt, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antiangiogenesis; Chemotherapy; Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BLEEDING; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; NEUROSURGERY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR EMBOLISM; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARBOPLATIN; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0034857594     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810100451     Document Type: Article

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