Treatment options and prognosis for multicentric juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma.

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Published in J Neurosurg on July 01, 1994

Authors

A N Mamelak1, M D Prados, W G Obana, P H Cogen, M S Edwards

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

Associated clinical trials:

A Phase I Study of Mebendazole for the Treatment of Pediatric Gliomas | NCT01837862

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