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Local cure of a cerebral glioma by surgery alone is often precluded by the invasion of tumor cells into surrounding macroscopically healthy brain tissue. In patients with brainstem gliomas, which account for 10%–25% of all intracranial neoplasms in children [5], cerebral areas are involved which are functionally more or less impossible.
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Voges, J., Treuer, H., Schlegel, W.J., Pastyr, O., Sturm, V. (1991). Interstitial Irradiation of Supratentorial Cerebral Gliomas in Childhood with Permanently Implanted Iodine 125: Preliminary Results. In: Bock, W.J., Lumenta, C., Brock, M., Klinger, M. (eds) Intracranial Angiomas Neurosurgical Intensive Care Supratentorial Tumors in Children. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76182-9_29
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