Metastase of a lumbosacral ependymoma with very long disease-free survival: a case report and review of the literature;Métastase d'un épendymome lombosacré avec très long intervalle libre : cas clinique et revue de la littérature

Cancer/Radiotherapie

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 148-151

  Castadot, Pierre ^a   Magné, Nicolas ^a   Roelandts, Martine ^a   Gastelblum, Pauline ^a   Oulad Ben Taib, Nordeyn ^b   Van Houtte, Paul ^a  

^a JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^b SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ependymoma; Follow up; Radiation therapy; Relapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EPENDYMOMA; GAIT DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SACRUM; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646168525     PISSN: 12783218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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