Prognostic significance of surgery and radiation therapy in cases of anaplastic astrocytoma: Retrospective analysis of 170 cases

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 575-581

  Nomiya, Takuma ^a   Nemoto, Kenji ^a   Kumabe, Toshihiro ^a   Takai, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamada, Shogo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic astrocytoma; Multivariate analysis; Radiation therapy; Surgery; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

NIMUSTINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NECROSIS; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34047196331     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2007.106.4.575     Document Type: Article

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