Pediatric cerebellar pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma with anaplastic features: A case of long-term survival after multimodality therapy

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 609-613

  Chang, Howard T ^a   Latorre, Julius Gene S ^a   Hahn, Seung ^a   Dubowy, Ronald ^a   Schelper, Robert L ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellar pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma; Desmoplastic astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PARAFFIN; RETICULIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VINCRISTINE;

ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN RADIATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHEMOTHERAPY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEARING LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABELING INDEX; MENINX; MITOSIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECROSIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROSURGERY; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; SURVIVAL TIME; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; XANTHOMA;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLUM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS;

EID: 33646750932     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-005-0005-3     Document Type: Article

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