Central nervous system medulloepithelioma: A series of eight cases including two arising in the pons

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 430-436

  Molloy, Patricia T ^a,b   Yachnis, Anthony T ^a   Rorke, Lucy B ^a   Dattilo, James J ^a   Needle, Michael N ^a   Millar, William S ^a   Goldwein, Joel W ^a   Sutton, Leslie N ^a   Phillips, Peter C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

embryonic tumor; medulloepithelioma; neural tube like structures; primitive neuroectodermal tumor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEURAL TUBE; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 0030033333     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.84.3.0430     Document Type: Article

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