Simultaneous radiochemotherapy in pediatric patients with high-grade glioma: A phase I study

Anticancer Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6 B, 2002, Pages 3569-3572

  Wolff, Johannes E A ^a   Wagner, Sabine ^a   Sindichakis, Marina ^b   Pietsch, Thorsten ^c   Gnekow, Astrid ^b   Kortmann, Rolf Dieter ^d   Sträter, Ronald ^e   Kuehl, Joachim ^f  

^a Klinik St Hedwig   (Germany)

^b KZVA Kinderklinik Augsburg   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Cohort comparison study; Response; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FANCONI RENOTUBULAR SYNDROME; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OTOTOXICITY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CISPLATIN; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036875144     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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