Combined surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy for oligodendroglial gliomatosis cerebri.
Gliomatosis cerebri (GC), which mainly consists of oligodendroglial tumour cells, is rare and six cases have been documented to date. We present a new case of oligodendroglial gliomatosis cerebri with a favourable response to combination treatment using surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan. fukusima-yu@mc.pref.osaka.jp
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D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*