Clinical management of primary central nervous system germ cell tumors

Seminars in Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 676-683

  Matsutani, Masao ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PLACENTA ISOENZYME; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINBLASTINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIPLOPIA; GERM CELL TUMOR; GROWTH RETARDATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; TERATOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VISUAL DISORDER;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL;

EID: 6344278340     PISSN: 00937754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2004.07.010     Document Type: Article

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