Solitary metastatic breast carcinoma in a trigeminal nerve mimicking a trigeminal neurinoma: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 677-680

  Nakano, Ichiro ^a   Iwasaki, Koichi ^a   Kondo, Akinori ^a  

^a Kitano Medical Research Institute and Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

metastatic breast cancer; solitary metastasis; trigeminal nerve; trigeminal neurinoma

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NERVE TUMOR; NEURINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

EID: 0029843030     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.85.4.0677     Document Type: Article

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