Successful treatment of a chemoresistant tumor with temozolomide in an adult patient: Report of a recurrent intracranial mesenchymal chondrosarcoma [1]

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-334

  Aksoy, Sercan ^a   Abalı, Huseyin ^a   Kılıçkap, Saadettin ^a   Güler, Nilüfer ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DACARBAZINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADULT; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN EDEMA; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHONDROSARCOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DURA MATER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECURRENT CANCER; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 14944364719     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-004-1725-z     Document Type: Letter

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