Defining the best available treatment for neurocytomas in children

Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2629-2632

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Schild, Steven E ^b   Fehlauer, Fabian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Extent of resection; Neurocytoma; Radiation dose; Radiotherapy; Rare central nervous system tumors in children; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROCYTOMA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8844243895     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20695     Document Type: Review

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