Treatment options in childhood pontine gliomas

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 281-287

  Wagner, Sabine ^a,n   Warmuth Metz, Monika ^b   Emser, Angela ^c   Gnekow, Astrid K ^d   Sträter, Ronald ^e   Rutkowski, Stefan ^b   Jorch, Norbert ^f   Schmid, Hans J ^g   Berthold, Frank ^h   Graf, Norbert ⁱ   Kortmann, Rolf D ^j   Pietsch, Thorsten ^k   Sörensen, Norbert ^l   Peters, Ove ^a,n   Wolff, Johannes E A ^m,n  

^a Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Bruder   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^f Universitätskinderklinik ^*  (Germany)

^g LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

ⁱ SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Children; Irradiation; Pontine glioma; Survival

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; TROFOSFAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTINGENCY TABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PONS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTRATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PONS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748559112     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-006-9133-1     Document Type: Article

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