The Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumours

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 539-549

  O'Brien, D F ^a   Farrell, M ^a   Delanty, N ^a   Traunecker, H ^b   Perrin, R ^c   Smyth, M D ^c   Park, T S ^c  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumours; Epilepsy surgery; Pharmaco resistant epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORPUS STRIATUM; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSEMBRYOPLASTIC NEUROEPITHELIAL TUMOR; EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INSULA; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEX RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 37049038835     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688690701594817     Document Type: Review

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