Sequential chemotherapy, high-dose thiotepa, circulating progenitor cell rescue, and radiotherapy for childhood high-grade glioma

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-48

  Massimino, Maura ^a   Gandola, Lorenza ^a   Luksch, Roberto ^a   Spreafico, Filippo ^a   Riva, Daria ^b   Solero, Carlo ^b   Giangaspero, Felice ^c   Locatelli, Franco ^d   Podda, Marta ^a   Bozzi, Fabio ^a   Pignoli, Emanuele ^a   Collini, Paola ^a   Cefalo, Graziella ^a   Zecca, Marco ^d   Casanova, Michela ^a   Ferrari, Andrea ^a   Terenziani, Monica ^a   Meazza, Cristina ^a   Polastri, Daniela ^a   Scaramuzza, Davide ^a   Ravagnani, Fernando ^a   Fossati Bellani, Franca ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID CITRATE DEXTROSE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEPARIN; LOMUSTINE; METHOTREXATE; OPIATE; THIOTEPA; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DUODENUM CANCER; FEMALE; FEVER; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; LEUKAPHERESIS; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NEUTROPENIA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL; POSTERIOR FOSSA; SPINE TUMOR; STEM CELL; STOMATITIS; TUMOR BLEEDING; TURCOT SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ERYTHROID PROGENITOR CELLS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; THIOTEPA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20044383920     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/S1152851704000304     Document Type: Article

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