Survival trends in elderly patients with glioblastoma multiforme: Resective surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 207-213

  Patwardhan, Ravish V ^a   Shorter, Cedric ^a   Willis, Brian K ^a   Reddy, Praveen ^a   Smith, Donald ^a   Caldito, Gloria C ^b   Nanda, Anil ^a  

^a Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

chemotherapy; geriatric; Glioblastoma multiforme; radiation; resective surgery; survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARMUSTINE; STEROID; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 4344680936     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2003.11.016     Document Type: Article

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