Intracranial and spinal metastases from a ganglioglioma with unusual cytogenetic abnormalities in a patient with complex partial seizures

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 550-555

  Jay, Venita ^a   Squire, Jeremy ^a   Blaser, Susan ^a,b   Hoffman, Harold J ^a,b   Hwang, Paul ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasm; Cytogenetics; Epilepsy; Ganglioglioma; Metastasis; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CYTOGENETICS; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PSYCHOSURGERY; REOPERATION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030707630     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050136     Document Type: Article

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