Therapeutic strategies and management of desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: Two case reports and literature overview

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 359-366

  Bächli, Heidi ^a   Avoledo, Pierino ^b   Gratzl, Otmar ^a   Tolnay, Marcus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma; Outcome; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DACTINOMYCIN; PHENOBARBITAL; TAMOXIFEN; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLIOMA; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROGLIA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETICULIN;

EID: 18144433120     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-003-0754-9     Document Type: Review

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