The overall prognosis for patients with malignant gliomas remains poor. The infiltrative nature of the tumor into normal brain and the presence of tumor foci in regions remote from the main tumor burden make cure with current therapies virtually impossible. Management therefore consists of tumor con
Management of recurrent malignant glioma – neurosurgical strategies
✍ Scribed by Herwig Kostron; Richard Bauer
- Publisher
- Springer Vienna
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 69 KB
- Volume
- 161
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0043-5341
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