Neurological oncology

Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 609-615

  Rees, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brain tumour; chemotherapy; glioma; meningioma; metastasis; neurological complication of cancer; neurotoxicity; paraneoplastic neurological disorder; radiotherapy; surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUSULFAN; CISPLATIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CYTARABINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUOROURACIL; IFOSFAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHOTREXATE; OXALIPLATIN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ASTROCYTOMA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEADACHE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; OTOTOXICITY; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PARKINSONISM; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION NECROSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SOMNOLENCE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 54249164694     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2008.08.005     Document Type: Review

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