Do we really need class 1 evidence results to give adjuvant radiation therapy to childhood intracranial ependymomas?

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 641-642

  Massimino, Maura ^a   Gandola, Lorenza ^a   Garrè, Maria Luisa ^b   Cama, Armando ^b   Modena, Piergiorgio ^a   Potepan, Paolo ^a   Giangaspero, Felice ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; EPENDYMOMA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COGNITION; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349246613     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-009-0847-1     Document Type: Letter

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