Tumors of the central nervous system in children and adolescents;ZNS-tumoren bei kindern und jugendlichen

Deutsches Arzteblatt

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 390-397

  Frühwald, Michael C ^a   Rutkowski, Stefan ^b  

^a KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b Klinik für Pädiatrische Hämatologie und Onkologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; B RAF KINASE; BETA CATENIN; CARBOPLATIN; CEDIRANIB; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CILENGITIDE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CISTERNA MAGNA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPENDYMOMA; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HIGH GRADE GLIOMA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LAMINECTOMY; LOW GRADE GLIOMA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MACROCEPHALY; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NAUSEA; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAPILLEDEMA; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; RHABDOID TUMOR; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STRABISMUS; SUBEPENDYMOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TERATOMA; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960495641     PISSN: 00121207     EISSN: 01722107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2011.0390     Document Type: Review

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