CT diagnosis and outcome of primary brain tumours in the elderly: A cohort study

Gerontology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 235-241

  Myint, Phyo K ^a,c   May, Helen M ^a   Baillie Johnson, Hugo ^a   Vowler, Sarah L ^b  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain biopsy; Computerised tomography; Elderly; Primary brain tumour; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4344597762     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078346     Document Type: Article

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