Subarachnoid dissemination of intraventricular tumors following simultaneous endoscopic biopsy and third ventriculostomy: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-67

  Luther, Neal ^a   Stetler Jr , William R ^c   Dunkel, Ira J ^b   Christos, Paul J ^a   Wellons III, John C ^c   Souweidane, Mark M ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Dissemination; Endoscopic third ventriculostomy; Endoscopic tumor; Germinoma; Pineal region tumor

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN VENTRICLE TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; MENINGIOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PINEOBLASTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL; YOLK SAC TUMOR; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BIOPSY; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TUMOR SEEDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM SEEDING; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; PINEALOMA; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; THIRD VENTRICLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOSTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75449084987     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.7.PEDS0971     Document Type: Article

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