Pediatric high-grade astrocytomas: A distinct neuro-oncological paradigm

Genome Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Gerges, Noha ^a   Fontebasso, Adam M ^b   Albrecht, Steffen ^c   Faury, Damien ^a   Jabado, Nada ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; GENOMICS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HIGH GRADE ASTROCYTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PONTINE GLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84880960465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gm470     Document Type: Review

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