Management of pilomyxoid astrocytomas: Our experience

Anticancer Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 919-926

  Tsugu, Hitoshi ^a   Oshiro, Shinya ^a   Yanai, Fumio ^a   Komatsu, Fuminari ^a   Abe, Hiroshi ^a   Fukushima, Takeo ^a   Nomura, Yuko ^a   Matsumoto, Shinji ^a   Nabeshima, Kazuki ^a   Takano, Koichi ^a   Utsunomiya, Hidetsuna ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Leptomeningeal dissemination; Pilocytic astrocytoma; Pilomyxoid astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; RANIMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PILOMYXOID ASTROCYTOMA; POLYMYXOID ASTROCYTOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARBOPLATIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 64949106440     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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