Brain metastases from epithelial ovarian cancer. The Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) experience and review of the literature

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3553-3558

  Pectasides, Dimitrios ^a,g   Aravantinos, Gerasimos ^b   Fountzilas, George ^c   Kalofonos, Charalampos ^d   Efstathiou, Eleni ^e   Karina, Maria ^c   Pavlidis, Nicolaos ^f   Farmakis, Dimitrios ^a   Economopoulos, Theofanis ^a   Dimopoulos, Meletios A ^e  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b AGII ANARGIRI CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^g NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Central nervous system; Ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYTODIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SEROUS PAPILLARY ADENOCARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 23344439254     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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