Well-differentiated neurocytoma: What is the best available treatment?

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-83

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Fehlauer, Fabian ^a   Lamszus, Katrin ^a   Schild, Steven E ^b   Hagel, Christian ^a   Westphal, Manfred ^a   Alberti, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROCYTOMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 14644401705     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/S1152851704000584     Document Type: Article

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