Pilocytic astrocytomas with leptomeningeal dissemination: Biological behavior, clinical course, and therapeutical options

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 298-304

  Buschmann, Ute ^a   Gers, Bettina ^a   Hildebrandt, Gerhard ^a  

^a Kantonsspital St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebral tumors; Chemotherapy; Chiasmo hypothalamic; Children; Low grade glioma; Pilocytic astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CARMUSTINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; GADOLINIUM; LOMUSTINE; PROCARBAZINE; TIOGUANINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISORIENTATION; DROWSINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEARING DISORDER; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THIRD VENTRICLE; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0037931400     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-003-0746-9     Document Type: Review

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