Therapy of meningeal melanocytomas

Cancer

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2442-2447

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Schild, Steven E ^b   Tatagiba, Marcos ^c,d   Molina, Hugo A ^e   Alberti, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e Laboratory of Neuropathology   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Extent of resection; Meningeal melanocytoma; Radiotherapy; Rare central nervous system tumors; Treatment options

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MENINX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENCE RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 2442646763     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20296     Document Type: Article

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