Desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma with metastases at presentation

Modern Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 945-951

  Setty, Shailaja N ^a   Miller, Douglas C ^b   Camras, Lawrence ^a   Charbel, Fady ^a   Schmidt, Mary Lou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid metastasis; Desmoplastic astrocytoma; Ganglioglioma; Infant brain tumor; Neuroepithelial tumor

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; GADOLINIUM; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IFOSFAMIDE; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 0030749378     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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