Successful treatment of a skull base malignant rhabdoid tumor with surgery, chemotherapy and gamma knife-based stereotactic radiosurgery in a young child

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 310-313

  Witt, Thomas C ^a,d   Lo, Simon S ^b   Timmerman, Robert D ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Indiana Lions Gamma Knife Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma Knife; Rhabdoid tumor; Young child

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RHABDOID TUMOR; SKULL BASE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIOSURGERY; RHABDOID TUMOR; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 35348921952     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000107372     Document Type: Article

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