Clinical heterogeneity of desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: A case series and literature review

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Hummel, Trent R ^a   Miles, Lili ^b   Mangano, Francesco T ^a   Jones, Blaise V ^a   Geller, James I ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Laboratory Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

brain tumor; cancer; desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma; pediatric

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ERLOTINIB; ETOPOSIDE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INOSITOL; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ATAXIA; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESMOPLASTIC INFANTILE GANGLIOGLIOMA; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; VOMITING;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84864352402     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3182580330     Document Type: Review

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