Treatment failure in intracranial primary germinomas

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1155-1161

  Shim, Kyu Won ^a   Kim, Tae Gon ^b   Suh, Chang Ok ^a   Cho, Jae Ho ^a   Yoo, Chul Joo ^a   Choi, Joong Uhn ^a   Kim, Jung Hee ^a   Kim, Dong Seok ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b CHA University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Germinoma; Radiation; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG FATALITY; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34548619357     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-007-0394-6     Document Type: Article

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