## Background: Multiinstitutional experience with the management of cerebral metastases from malignant germ cell tumors (mgct) is presented. ## Methods: Clinical data regarding brain metastases from mgct at diagnosis (group 1 [56 patients]) or after cisplatin-based chemotherapy (group 2 [83 patie
Treatment of Brain Metastases from Germ Cell Tumors
โ Scribed by Oechsle, Karin; Bokemeyer, Carsten
- Book ID
- 121359537
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0889-8588
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