Surgical treatment of brain tumors in infants younger than six months of age and review of the literature

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 137-144

  Lang, Shih Shan ^a,b   Beslow, Lauren A ^b   Gabel, Brandon ^a   Judkins, Alex R ^c   Fisher, Michael J ^b,d   Sutton, Leslie N ^a,b   Storm, Phillip B ^a,b   Heuer, Gregory G ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Congenital; Neonates; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FONTANEL; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MACROCEPHALY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTON THERAPY; REVIEW; RHABDOID TUMOR; SEIZURE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TERATOMA; VOMITING;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84864663322     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2011.09.012     Document Type: Review

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