Treatment of choroid plexus tumors: A 20-year single institutional experience

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 398-405

  Bettegowda, Chetan ^a   Adogwa, Owoicho ^b   Mehta, Vivek ^c   Chaichana, Kaisorn L ^a   Weingart, Jon ^a   Carson, Benjamin S ^a   Jallo, George I ^a   Ahn, Edward S ^a  

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

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choroid plexus carcinoma; Choroid plexus papilloma; Choroid plexus tumor; Oncology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERITONEUM VEIN SHUNT; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VISUAL DISORDER; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; CARCINOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFANT; PAPILLOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868357793     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.8.PEDS12132     Document Type: Article

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