Urgent radiotherapy is effective in the treatment of metastatic medulloblastoma causing symptomatic brainstem edema

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1077-1080

  Shapiro, Ronald H ^a   Chang, Andrew L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniospinal irradiation; Medulloblastoma; Urgent

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; MANNITOL; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECREASED APPETITE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LETHARGY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052672483     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.23085     Document Type: Article

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