Pediatric primary intramedullary spinal cord glioblastoma

Rare Tumors

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 135-141

  Lober, Robert ^a,b   Sharma, Suash ^a   Bell, Beverly ^a   Free, Alan ^a   Figueroa, Ramon ^a   Sheils, Chris W ^a   Lee, Mark ^a,c   Cowell, John ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Glioblastoma; Intra medullary; Pediatric; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 79551631214     PISSN: 20363605     EISSN: 20363613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/rt.2010.e48     Document Type: Article

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