Time to rethink the unthinkable: upfront biopsy of children with newly diagnosed diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)
Pediatr Blood Cancer
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2015 Jan;62(1):3-4.
doi: 10.1002/pbc.25266.
Epub 2014 Oct 4.
Author
Mark W Kieran
1
Affiliation
1
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
PMID:
25284709
DOI:
10.1002/pbc.25266
No abstract available
MeSH terms
Biopsy
Brain Stem Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Brain Stem Neoplasms / surgery
Diagnostic Imaging*
Glioma / diagnosis*
Glioma / surgery
Humans
Prognosis