Anaplastic astroblastoma of childhood: Aggressive behavior

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1125-1129

  Kantar, M ^a   Ertan, Y ^a   Turhan, T ^a   Kitis, O ^a   Anacak, Y ^a   Akalin, T ^a   Ersahin, Y ^a   Cetingul N ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Astroblastoma; Chemotherapy; Children; Radiation therapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGGRESSION; ANAPLASTIC ASTROBLASTOMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GRAY MATTER; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OTOTOXICITY; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VOMITING;

BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL;

EID: 68349100161     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-009-0885-8     Document Type: Article

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