Cerebral atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor of infancy: Long-term survival after multimodal treatment, also including triple intrathecal chemotherapy and gamma knife radiosurgery - Case report

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 327-332

  Hirth, Asle ^a   Pedersen, Paal Henning ^a   Wester, Knut ^a   Mörk, Sverre ^a   Helgestad, Jon ^a  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor; Gamma knife; Infancy; Survival; Triple intrathecal chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; ATYPICAL TERATOID TUMOR; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RHABDOID TUMOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

EID: 0038101620     PISSN: 08880018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08880010390203116     Document Type: Article

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