Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) for previously untreated malignant gliomas

BMC Cancer

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Nemoto, Kenji ^a   Ogawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Matsushita, Haruo ^a   Takeda, Ken ^a   Takai, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamada, Shogo ^a   Kumabe, Toshihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON THERAPY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 3042793778     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-2-1     Document Type: Article

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