The therapy of infantile malignant brain tumors: Current status?

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 279-285

  Kalifa, Chantal ^a   Grill, Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors; Brain tumors; Chemotherapy; Choroid plexus carcinomas; Ependymomas; Infants; Malignant gliomas; Medulloblastomas; Sequelae

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CARBOPLATIN; CHLORMETHINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; THIOTEPA; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPENDYMOMA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROTOXICITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RHABDOID TUMOR; TREATMENT FAILURE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; PROGNOSIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 29644446889     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-005-6752-x     Document Type: Article

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