Suprasellar Granular Cell Tumor: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 237-240

  Moriyama, Eiji ^a   Matsumoto, Yuzo ^a   Meguro, Toshinari ^a   Mano, Shohei ^b  

^a Departments of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

choristoma; granular cell tumor; magnetic resonance imaging; suprasellar neoplasm

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; OXYTOCIN; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIOTOMY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTEIN S; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029997581     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.237     Document Type: Article

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