Analysis of survival and prognostic factors of pediatric patients with brain tumor

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 425-432

  De Araujo, Orlandira L ^a   Da Trindade, Karine M ^b   Trompieri, Nadia M ^a,c   Fontenele, Juvenia B ^c   Felix, Francisco H C ^a,c  

^a Hospital Infantil Albert Sabin   (Brazil)

^b Faculdade de Medicina de Juazeiro do Norte   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasms; Prognostic; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BLASTOMA; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; DIENCEPHALON; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BRAZIL; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054858716     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.2124     Document Type: Article

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