Progress in long-term survival in adult patients with supratentorial low-grade gliomas: A population-based study of 993 patients in whom tumors were diagnosed between 1970 and 1993

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 854-862

  Johannesen, Tom B ^a   Langmark, Frøydis ^b   Lote, Knut ^b  

^a CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Low grade glioma; Population based study; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORWAY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOM; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 0142182641     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2003.99.5.0854     Document Type: Article

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