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Long-Term Survival of a Patient with Glioblastoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Adrian Sacher ,
Robert Wollmann ,
Urmi Kalokhe ,
David Munoz ,
Marie-Christine Guiot  and
R. Loch Macdonald
Adrian Sacher
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery, Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Robert Wollmann
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, University of Chicago Medical Center and the Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Urmi Kalokhe
Affiliation:
St. Margaret Mercy Hospital, Hammond, Indiana, USA
David Munoz
Affiliation:
Division of Pathology, Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Marie-Christine Guiot
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
R. Loch Macdonald*
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery, Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Division of Neurosurgery, St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1W8, Canada.
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , March 2010 , pp. 289 - 292
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