Current advances in the diagnosis and management of intracranial germ cell tumors

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-262

  Balmaceda, Casilda ^a   Finlay, Jonathan ^a  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; THIOTEPA; VINBLASTINE;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; BRAIN TUMOR; NEOPLASM;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL;

EID: 3042673612     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-004-0046-0     Document Type: Review

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