Glial tumourettes (glial microtumours): Their clinical and histopathological manifestations

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 818-823

  Nishio, S ^a   Morioka, T ^a   Takeshita, I ^a   Fukui, M ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplasia; Aqueductal stenosis; Histogenesis; Histology; Minute glioma; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN AQUEDUCT STENOSIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; THALAMUS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0030011107     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01411259     Document Type: Article

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