Successful treatment of intracranial ependymoma with leptomeningeal spread with systemic chemotherapy and intrathecal liposomal cytarabine in a two-year-old child

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 303-306

  Lassaletta, Alvaro ^a   Perez Olleros, Pilar ^a   Scaglione, Cristina ^a   Sirvent, Sara ^a   De Prada, Inma ^a   Perez Martinez, Antonio ^a   Ruiz Hernandez, Alberto ^a   Madero, Luis ^a  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL UNIVERSITARIO NIÑO JESÚS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Children; Ependymoma; Leptomeningeal spread; Liposomal cytarabine; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; ETOPOSIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD CARE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; EPENDYMOMA; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CYTARABINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; EPENDYMOMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LIPOSOMES; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

EID: 34250750816     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-006-9327-6     Document Type: Article

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