Preoperative chemotherapy in children with high-risk medulloblastomas: A feasibility study

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 103 PEDIATRICS, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2005, Pages 312-318

  Grill, Jacques ^a   Lellouch Tubiana, Arielle ^b   Elouahdani, Selma ^b   Pierre Kahn, Alain ^b   Zerah, Michel ^b   Renier, Dominique ^b   Valteau Couanet, Dominique ^b   Hartmann, Olivier ^b   Kalifa, Chantal ^b   Sainte Rose, Christian ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

High dose chemotherapy; Maturation; Metastasis; Pediatric neurosurgery; Posterior fossa tumor; Third ventriculocisternostomy

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; MELPHALAN; THIOTEPA;

AKINETIC MUTISM; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CELL MATURATION; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SAFETY; SHUNTING; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKULL IRRADIATION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR BIOPSY; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; MORTALITY; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; PILOT PROJECTS; SURVIVAL RATE; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 32944465648     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/ped.2005.103.4.0312     Document Type: Article

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