Time to rethink the unthinkable: upfront biopsy of children with newly diagnosed diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)

Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 Jan;62(1):3-4. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25266. Epub 2014 Oct 4.

Author

Mark W Kieran¹

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