Extraneural spread of glioblastoma - Report of two cases

Onkologie

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 192-194

  Templeton, Arnoud ^a   Hofer, Silvia ^b   Töpfer, Michael ^a   Sommacal, Andreas ^a   Fretz, Christian ^a   Cerny, Thomas ^a   Gillessen, Silke ^a  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bone; Glioblastoma: Extraneural spread; Lung; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

ERLOTINIB; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EPIDURAL NEOPLASMS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

EID: 43949089482     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000118627     Document Type: Article

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