Childhood craniopharyngioma: Vancouver experience

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 21, Issue 8-9, 2005, Pages 758-765

  Hukin, Juliette ^a   Visser, Johann ^a   Sargent, Michael ^a   Goddard, Karen ^b   Fryer, Chris ^a   Steinbok, Paul ^a  

^a BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bleomycin; Morbidity; Outcome; Radiotherapy; Surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; INFANT; MALE; PITUITARY IRRADIATION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24944484722     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-005-1220-7     Document Type: Article

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