Pediatric spinal glioblastoma multiforme: Current treatment strategies and possible predictors of survival

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 715-720

  Ononiwu, Chiagozie ^a   Mehta, Vivek ^a   Bettegowda, Chetan ^a   Jallo, George ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Glioblastoma; Pediatric; Spine

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; ERLOTINIB; LENALIDOMIDE; PROCARBAZINE; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINE TUMOR; THORAX TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859849004     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-012-1705-0     Document Type: Article

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