Surgical management of metastatic sarcoma to the brain: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 181-186

  Fox, Benjamin D ^a   Patel, Akash ^a   Suki, Dima ^a   Rao, Ganesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gross total resection; Metastatic brain tumor sarcoma; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARTILAGE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROSURGERY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60749131941     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.4.17505     Document Type: Article

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