Unusual presentation of adult metastatic peritoneal medulloblastoma associated with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt: A case study and review of the literature

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 217-220

  Magtibay, Paul M ^a   Friedman, Jonathan A ^a   Rao, Ravi D ^a   Buckner, Jan C ^a   Cliby, William A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CARMUSTINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; THIOTEPA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIQUORRHEA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROTOXICITY; PELVIS TUMOR; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0038083105     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/S115285170200042X     Document Type: Review

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