Ependymoma

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 270-285

  Teo, Charles ^a,b   Nakaji, Peter ^c   Symons, Patricia ^a   Tobias, Vivienne ^a   Cohn, Richard ^a   Smee, Robert ^d  

^a SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES PRIVATE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain tumour; Ependymoma; Paediatric

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; CISPLATIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LOMUSTINE; PREDNISONE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; VINCRISTINE;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOGENETICS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA MICROARRAY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPENDYMOMA; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOSOMY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SUBEPENDYMOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CYTOGENETICS; EPENDYMOMA; GENES, NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2; GENES, P53; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 0038268714     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-003-0753-x     Document Type: Review

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