Primary brain tumors in the elderly population

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 427-435

  Brandes, Alba A ^a   Franceschi, Enrico ^b  

^a BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CARMUSTINE; CIMETIDINE; CISPLATIN; LOMUSTINE; NITROSOUREA; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROCARBAZINE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BLOOD TOXICITY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTIPATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SAFETY; ELDERLY CARE; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG TOXICITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCYTOPENIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY TUMOR; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

EID: 80051665308     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: 15343138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-011-0126-9     Document Type: Article

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