Brain metastases of malignant germ cell tumors in children and adolescents
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[Germ cell tumors in children and adolescents].
3.7% of the diagnoses in the Pediatric Tumour Registry (Zentrales Tumor-Register) of the German Society for Pediatric Oncology and Haematology (Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Onkologie und Hämatologie) concern germ cell tumors. The annual incidence has increased from 0.22 in 1980 to 0.60 per 100,000 children in 1992. The most common localizations are the coccygeal region (25%), followed by the t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20411