In pursuit of prognostic factors in children with pilocytic astrocytomas

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-28

  Paixão Becker, Aline ^a   De Oliveira, Ricardo Santos ^a   Saggioro, Fabiano Pinto ^a   Neder, Luciano ^a   Chimelli, Leila Maria Cardão ^b   MacHado, Hélio Rubens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Galectin 3; Pediatric neurosurgery; Pilocytic astrocytoma; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

GALECTIN 3; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CANCER CELL; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE TUMOR; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALECTIN 3; HUMANS; INFANT; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71349083949     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-009-0990-8     Document Type: Article

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