Management of pediatric myxopapillary ependymoma: The role of adjuvant radiation

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 421-427

  Agbahiwe, Harold C ^a   Wharam, Moody ^a   Batra, Sachin ^a   Cohen, Kenneth ^a   Terezakis, Stephanie A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT RADIATION; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; EPENDYMOMA; HOPKINS; INITIAL TREATMENT; KAPLAN-MEIER; LOCAL CONTROL; LOCAL FAILURE; MEAN AGES; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS; PRIMARY TREATMENT; SURGICAL RESECTION; TIME POINTS;

DIAGNOSIS; PEDIATRICS; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; EPENDYMOMA; ESOPHAGITIS; FATIGUE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MYELOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBTOTAL RESECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RARE DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872181676     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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