Long term outcomes in patients with intracranial germinomas: A single institution experience of irradiation with or without chemotherapy

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-167

  Kawabata, Yasuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Jun A ^a   Arakawa, Yoshiki ^a,b   Shirahata, Mitsuaki ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Distant failure; Intracranial germinoma; Radiation dose; Radiation field; Recurrence; Whole ventricle irradiation

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; MELPHALAN; THIOTEPA; TOPOTECAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL GERMINOMA; JAPAN; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT CANCER; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43149124186     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-008-9542-4     Document Type: Article

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