Bevacizumab Treatment for Meningiomas in NF2: A Retrospective Analysis of 15 Patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Nunes, Fabio P ^a   Merker, Vanessa L ^a   Jennings, Dominique ^a   Caruso, Paul A ^a   di Tomaso, Emmanuelle ^a   Muzikansky, Alona ^a   Barker II, Fred G ^a   Stemmer Rachamimov, Anat ^a   Plotkin, Scott R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875335303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059941     Document Type: Article

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