Positron emission tomography in the diagnosis and management of intracranial germ cell tumours

Hormone Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 190-196

  Kelly, Philip A ^a   Metcalfe, Karl ^a   Evanson, Jane ^a   Sabin, Ian ^a   Plowman, P Nicholas ^a   Monson, John P ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Germ cell tumours; Intracranial; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DESMOPRESSIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; IRINOTECAN; LOMUSTINE; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GERM CELL TUMOR; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PINEALOMA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70149121609     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000232496     Document Type: Article

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