Nonmalignant pediatric brain tumors

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 200-205

  Rashidi, Mahmoud ^a   DaSilva, Victor Reis ^a   Minagar, Alireza ^a   Rutka, James T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; HORMONE ANTIBODY; HYDROXYUREA; VINCRISTINE;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; GENETICS; GIANT CELL TUMOR; GROUPS BY AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MORBIDITY; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; SUBEPENDYMOMA; TERATOMA; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INFANT; PAPILLOMA; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; PAPILLOMA; TERATOMA;

EID: 0038266621     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-003-0079-9     Document Type: Review

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