Successful treatment of intracranial nongerminomatous malignant germ cell tumors by administering neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy before excision of residual tumors

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 106-114

  Kochi, Masato ^a   Itoyama, Youichi ^b   Shiraishi, Shoji ^b   Kitamura, Isao ^b   Nurubayashi, Toru ^b   Ushio, Yukitaka ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Germ cell tumor; Neoadjuvant therapy; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DESMOPRESSIN; ETOPOSIDE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; IFOSFAMIDE; THYROXINE; TUMOR MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; MIXED TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

EID: 0037970194     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2003.99.1.0106     Document Type: Article

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