Treatment and prognosis of patients with intracranial nongerminomatous malignant germ cell tumors: A multiinstitutional retrospective analysis of 41 patients

Cancer

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 369-376

  Ogawa, Kazuhiko ^a,g   Toita, Takafumi ^a   Nakamura, Katsumasa ^b   Uno, Takashi ^c   Onishi, Hiroshi ^d   Itami, Jun ^e   Shikama, Naoto ^f   Saeki, Naokatsu ^c   Yoshii, Yoshihiko ^a   Murayama, Sadayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasms; Chemotherapy; Germ cell tumor; Germinomas; Nongerminomatous; Radiation therapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; VINBLASTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0038345386     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11495     Document Type: Article

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