Thirty-eight patients with newly diagnosed medulloblastoma were studied with myelography and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cytology studies before radiotherapy. Seventeen (45%) patients had evidence of dissemination beyond the posterior fossa. Spinal cord lesions were demonstrated in ten patients (26%).
Myelography in treatment planning for medulloblastoma
โ Scribed by Melvin Deutsch; Donald H. Reigel
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 91 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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