Management of pilocytic astrocytoma with diffuse leptomeningeal spread: Two cases and review of the literature

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 477-481

  Aryan, Henry E ^a   Meltzer, Hal S ^a,b   Lu, Daniel C ^a,c   Ozgur, Burak M ^a   Levy, Michael L ^a,b   Bruce, Derek A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Leptomeningeal spread; Metastasis; Pilocytic astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; LOMUSTINE; PROCARBAZINE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TIOGUANINE; VINCRISTINE;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOTOMY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; IRRADIATION; LAMINECTOMY; MENINGOCELE; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE METASTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; ARACHNOID CYSTS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DACARBAZINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21344442657     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-004-1002-7     Document Type: Article

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