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References for Supratentorial Ependymomas in Children

This page was last updated on August 19th, 2022

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  2. Dohrmann GJ, Farwell JR, Flannery JT: Ependymomas and ependymoblastomas in children. J Neurosurg 45:273-283, 1976
  3. Awaad YM, Allen JC, Miller DC, et al: Deferring adjuvant therapy for totally resected intracranial ependymoma. Pediatr Neurol 14:216-219, 1996
  4. Hukin J, Epstein FJ, Lefton D, et al: Treatment of intracranial ependymoma by surgery alone. Pediatr Neurosurg 29:40-45, 1998
  5. Tihan T, Zhou T, Holmes E, et al: The prognostic value of histological grading of posterior fossa ependymomas in children: A Children;s Oncology Group study and review of prognostic factors. Mod Pathol 21:165-177, 2008
  6. Smyth MD, Rubin J: Ependymoma, in Gupta N, Banerjee A, Haas-Kogan D (eds): Pediatric CNS Tumors. Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, pp 67-87
  7. Chakraborty A, Harkness W, Phipps K: Surgical management of supratentorial ependymomas. Childs Nerv Syst 25:1215-1220, 2009
  8. Merchant TE: Current management of childhood ependymomas. Oncology 16:629-644, 2002
  9. Robertson PL, Zeltzer PM, Boyett JM: Survival and prognostic factors following radiotherapy and chemotherapy for ependymomas in children: A report of the Children’s Cancer Group. J Neurosurg 88:695-703, 1998
  10. Vinchon M, Soto-Ares G, Riffaud L, et al: Supratentorial ependymoma in children. Pediatr Neurosurg 34:77-87, 2001
  11. Palma L, Celli P, Cantore G: Supratentorial ependymomas in the first two decades of life: Long term follow-up of 20 cases. Neurosurgery 32:169-175, 1993
  12. Park JP, Chaffee S, Noll WW, et al: Constitutional de novo t(1;22)(p22;q11.2) and ependymoma. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 86:150-152, 1996
  13. Mendrzyk F, Korshunov A, Benner A et al: Identification of gains on 1q and epidermal growth factor receptor overexpression as independent prognostic markers in intracranial ependymoma. Clin Cancer Res 12: 2070-2079, 2006
  14. Jeuken JW, Sprenger SH, Gilhuis J: Correlation between localization, age and chromosomal imbalances in ependymal tumors as detected by CGH. J Pathol 197:238-244, 2002
  15. Louis DN, Ohgaki H, Wiestler OD, et al (eds): WHO Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System, 4th ed. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer Press, 2007
  16. Palma L, Celli P, Mariottini A, et al: The importance of surgery in supratentorial ependymomas. Long-term survival in a series of 23 cases. Childs Nerv Syst 16:170-175, 2000
  17. Grill J, Le Deley MC, Gambarelli D, et al: Postoperative chemotherapy without irradiation for ependymoma in children under 5 years of age: a multicenter trial of the French Society of Pediatric Oncology. J Clin Oncol 19:1288-1296, 2001
  18. Evans AE, Anderson JR, Lefkowitz-Boudreaux IB, et al: Adjuvant chemotherapy of childhood posterior fossa ependymoma: craniospinal irradiation with or without adjuvant CCNU, vincristine or prednisolone. Med Pediatr Oncol 27:8-14, 1996
  19. Merchant TE, Jenkins JJ, Burger PC, et al: Influence of tumor grade on time to progression after irradiation for localized ependymoma in children. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Physics 53:52-57, 2002
  20. Merchant TE, Mulhern RK, Krasin MJ, et al: Preliminary results from a phase II trial of conformal radiation therapy and evaluation of radiation-related CNS effects for pediatric patients with localized ependymoma. J Clin Oncol 22:3156-3162, 2004
  21. Merchant TE, Li C, Xiong X, Kun LE, et al: Conformal radiotherapy after surgery for pediatric ependymoma: a prospective study. Lancet Oncol 10:258-266, 2009
  22. Horn B, Heideman R, Geyer R, et al: A multi-institutional retrospective study of intracranial ependymoma in children: identification of risk factors. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 21:203-211, 1999
  23. Merchant TE, Rose SR, Bosley C, et al: Growth hormone secretion after conformal radiation therapy in pediatric patients with localized brain tumors. J Clin Oncol 20:4776-4780, 2011
  24. Duffner PK, Krischer JP, Sanford RA, et al: Prognostic factors in infants and very young children with intracranial ependymomas. Pediatr Neurosurg 28:215-222, 1998
  25. Foreman NK, Love S, Gill SS, et al: Second look surgery for incompletely resected fourth ventricle ependymomas. Technical case report. Neurosurgery 40:856-860, 1997

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