Treatment results in patients with intracranial ependymomas

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 127-132

  Bostrom A ^a   Bostrom J ^a   Hartmann, W ^a   Pietsch, T ^a   Feuss, M ^a   Lehe, M Von ^a   Simon, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ependymoma; surgery; ventricular tumors

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051624434     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: 14389746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1273745     Document Type: Article

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