Central nervous system germ cell tumors: Classification, clinical features, and treatment with a historical overview

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1439-1445

  Fujimaki, Takamitsu ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central nervous system germ cell tumors; Chemotherapy; Germinoma; Pineal; Radiation; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; PLATINUM COMPLEX; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; THIOTEPA; TUMOR MARKER;

ANASTOMOSIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GROWING TERATOMA SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION FIELD; SPINE METASTASIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TERATOMA; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70449129459     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073809342127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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