Extensive pulmonary metastasis of an intracranial meningioma with repeated recurrence: Radiographic and pathologic features

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 313-318

  Shin, Myung S ^a,b   Holman, William L ^a   Herrera, Guillermo A ^a   Ho, Kang Jey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; LUNG METASTASIS; MENINGIOMA;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030003542     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199603000-00010     Document Type: Article

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