Patient outcome at long-term follow-up after aggressive microsurgical resection of cranial base chondrosarcomas

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1090-1097

  Tzortzidis, Fotios ^a   Elahi, Foad ^a   Wright, Donald C ^b   Temkin, Nancy ^a   Natarajan, Sabareesh K ^a   Sekhar, Laligam N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chondrosarcoma; Cranial base; Microsurgery; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; INFECTION COMPLICATION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LIQUORRHEA; MICROSURGERY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; QUADRIPLEGIA; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHONDROSARCOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745102413     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000215892.65663.54     Document Type: Article

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