Patients with brain metastases from gastrointestinal tract cancer treated with whole brain radiation therapy: Prognostic factors and survival

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 3345-3348

  Bartelt, Susanne ^a,b   Momm, Felix ^a   Weissenberger, Christian ^a   Lutterbach, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN STEM; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CANCER; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 9744286915     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i22.3345     Document Type: Article

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