Epidemiology of primary central nervous system tumors in the Coast and Gorski Kotar County, Croatia, 1977-2000

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Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 550-555

  Tuškan Mohar, Lidija ^a,b   Materljan, Eris ^a   Jurjević, Anton ^a   Weiner Črnja, Mima ^a   Willheim, Ksenija ^a   Antončić, Igor ^a   Bučuk, Mira ^a   Sepčić, Juraj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^b NONE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Central nervous system primary tumors; Croatia; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CROATIA; DEMOGRAPHY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEURINOMA; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 14244251141     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089160409000603     Document Type: Article

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