Survival and recurrence factors in adult medulloblastoma: The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center experience from 1978 to 1998

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 167-173

  Kunschner, Lara J ^a   Kuttesch, John ^a   Hess, Kenneth ^a   Yung, W K Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CANCER; BRAIN TUMOR; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; BONE MARROW NEOPLASMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035407296     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/S1522851700000582     Document Type: Article

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