Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas: Institutional experience of 18 patients

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1767-1772

  Oh, Taemin ^c   Kaur, Gurvinder ^a,c   Madden, Michelle ^b   Bloch, Orin ^c   Parsa, Andrew T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Glioma; Management; Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma; Resection; Treatment; Tumor grade

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CARMUSTINE; FLUTAMIDE; IRINOTECAN; LAPATINIB; LOMUSTINE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; AGE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CANCER GRADING; FACTUAL DATABASE; GLIOMA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOMA; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR BURDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908550418     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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