Low-Grade Glial Tumors: Are They All the Same?

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-26

  Bristol, Ruth E ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; CISPLATIN; ENZASTURIN; ERLOTINIB; ETOPOSIDE; IRINOTECAN; LENALIDOMIDE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DESMOPLASTIC INFANTILE GANGLIOGLIOMA; DYSEMBRYOPLASTIC NEUROEPITHELIAL TUMOR; GLIOMA; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; JUVENILE PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; GANGLIOGLIOMA; GLIOMA; HUMANS; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65349188371     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2009.03.002     Document Type: Review

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