Stereotactic biopsy for brainstem tumors in pediatric patients

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-34

  Pérez Gómez, José L ^a   Rodríguez Álvarez, Carlos A ^a   Marhx Bracho, Alfonso ^a   Rueda Franco, Fernando ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Brainstem gliomas; Brainstem tumors; Stereotactic biopsy

Indexed keywords

TEMOZOLOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BALANCE DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE STUDY; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBRILLARY ASTROCYTOMA; GAIT DISORDER; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEADACHE; HEMATOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TORTICOLLIS; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VERTIGO; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; BIOPSY; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 71349086292     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-009-1000-x     Document Type: Article

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