Spinal Recurrence From Intracranial Germinoma: Risk Factors and Treatment Outcome for Spinal Recurrence

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1347-1354

  Ogawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Yoshii, Yoshihiko ^a   Shikama, Naoto ^b   Nakamura, Katsumasa ^c   Uno, Takashi ^d   Onishi, Hiroshi ^e   Itami, Jun ^f   Shioyama, Yoshiyuki ^b   Iraha, Shiro ^a   Hyodo, Akio ^a   Toita, Takafumi ^a   Kakinohana, Yasumasa ^a   Tamaki, Wakana ^a   Ito, Hisao ^d   Murayama, Sadayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Germinomas; Radiation; Spinal recurrence

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; RISK ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL OUTCOMES; GERMINOMAS; INITIAL TREATMENTS; MULTIFOCAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES; OVERALL SURVIVALS; RADIATION FIELDS; RADIOTHERAPY ALONE; RISK FACTORS; SALVAGE TREATMENTS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPINAL RECURRENCE; TOTAL RADIATION DOSES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; VINBLASTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56349170738     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.03.055     Document Type: Article

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