The need to continually redefine the goals of surgery for glioblastoma

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Kaisorn L Chaichana et al. Neuro Oncol. 2014 Apr.

. 2014 Apr;16(4):611-2.

doi: 10.1093/neuonc/not326. Epub 2014 Jan 30.

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (K.L.C. and A.Q.-H.).

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Establishing percent resection and residual volume thresholds affecting survival and recurrence for patients with newly diagnosed intracranial glioblastoma.
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Glioblastoma resection: in search of a threshold between worthwhile and futile.
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