Use of 11C-methionine positron emission tomography in basal germinoma: Assessment of treatment response and residual tumor

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 845-853

  Kawai, Nobuyuki ^a   Miyake, Keisuke ^a   Yamamoto, Yuka ^b   Nishiyama, Yoshihiro ^b   Maeda, Yukito ^b   Kageji, Teruki ^c   Tamiya, Takashi ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Germinoma; Methionine; Positron emission tomography; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; IFOSFAMIDE; METHIONINE C 11; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBON; METHIONINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BASAL GERMINOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR BIOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; GERM CELL TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SCINTISCANNING; THALAMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHILD; FEMALE; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHIONINE; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; THALAMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349274157     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-009-0841-7     Document Type: Article

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