Epidemiology of pediatric brain tumors in Greece (1991-2008). Experience from the "Agia Sofia" Children's Hospital

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-4

  Alexiou, G A ^a   Moschovi, M ^b   Stefanaki, K ^a   Sfakianos, G ^a   Prodromou, N ^a  

^a AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

brain tumor; childhood; epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GRADING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DESMOPLASTIC INFANTILE GANGLIOGLIOMA; DYSEMBRYOPLASTIC NEUROEPITHIAL TUMOR; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOMA; GREECE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79951908732     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: 14389746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1268495     Document Type: Article

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