Cerebro-vasculopathy and malignancy: Catastrophic complications of radiotherapy for optic nerve glioma in a von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis patient

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-51

  Jamjoom, Abdulhakim B ^a   Malabarey, Tajuddin ^a   Jamjoom, Zain Alabedeen B ^a   Al Sohaibani, Mohammed ^a   Hulailah, Ahmed ^a   Kolawole, Taiyewo ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

malignant transformation; optic nerve glioma; radiotherapy complications vasculitis; von Recklinghausen

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VASCULAR DISEASE;

BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHILD; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; ORBIT; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 0029993431     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00346610     Document Type: Article

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