Childhood brain tumors: Standards and recent developments in diagnostics and treatment;Hirntumoren bei kindern und jugendlichen: Standards und neue entwicklungen in diagnostik und therapie

Onkologe

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 533-545

  Rutkowski, S ^a   Gnekow, A ^b   Fleischhack, G ^c   Wagner, S ^d   Calaminus, G ^e   Wolff, J ^f   Muller H ^g   Sorensen N ^h   Faldum, A ⁱ   Tatagiba, M ^j   Pietsch, T ^k   Warmuth Metz, M ^h   Kortmann, R ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g Kinderklinik des Klinikums Oldenburg ^*  (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Brain tumors; Children; Diagnostic procedures; Symptoms; Treatment recommendations

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; LOMUSTINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILDHOOD; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; EPENDYMOMA; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STANDARD; SURVIVAL; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 33746206304     PISSN: 09478965     EISSN: 14330415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00761-006-1048-0     Document Type: Article

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