High-grade intramedullary astrocytomas: 30 years' experience at the Neurosurgery Department of the University of Rome "Sapienza": Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 144-153

  Raco, Antonino ^a   Piccirilli, Manolo ^a   Landi, Alessandro ^a   Lenzi, Jacopo ^a   Delfini, Roberto ^a   Cantore, Giampaolo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; High grade intramedullary astrocytoma; Radiotherapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ROME; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76149126452     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.6.SPINE08910     Document Type: Article

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