Malignant occipital astrocytoma in a patient with Lhermitte-Duclos disease (cerebellar dysplastic gangliocytoma)

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-102

  Domingo, Z ^a,b   Fisher Jeffes, N D ^a   De Villiers, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Dysplastic gangliocytoma; Lhermitte Duclos disease; Malignant cerebral astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LHERMITTE DUCLOS DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLUM; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029914473     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688699650040610     Document Type: Article

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