Prognostic factors and survival in primary malignant astrocytomas of the spinal cord: A population-based analysis from 1973 to 2007

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Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Adams, Hadie ^a   Avendaño, Javier ^a,b   Raza, Shaan M ^a   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^a   Jallo, George I ^a   Quiñones Hinojosa, Alfredo ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

^c Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

anaplastic; astrocytoma; glioblastoma; prognostic factors; SEER; spinal cord; survival; treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY MALIGNANT SPINAL CORD ASTROCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861491084     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31824584c0     Document Type: Article

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