Multimodal target point assessment for stereotactic biopsy in children with diffuse bithalamic astrocytomas

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 445-449

  Messing Junger A M ^a   Floeth, F W ^a   Pauleit, D ^a   Reifenberger, G ^a   Willing, R ^a   Gartner J ^a   Coenen, H H ^b   Langen, K J ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bithalamic astrocytoma; Diffuse astrocytoma; Image fusion; Image guided biopsy; O (2 18F fluoroethyl) L tyrosine (FET); PET

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUORINE 18; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; LOMUSTINE; TYROSINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CANCER GRADING; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; THALAMUS;

ASTROCYTOMA; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036704818     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0644-6     Document Type: Article

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