Diencephalic syndrome and disseminated juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas of the hypothalamic-optic chiasm region

Cancer

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 142-146

  Perilongo, Giorgio ^a   Carollo, Carla ^a   Salviati, Leonardo ^a   Murgia, Alessandra ^a   Pillon, Marta ^a   Basso, Giuseppe ^b   Gardiman, Marina ^a   Laverda, AnnaMaria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diencephalic syndrome; Juvenile pilocytic astroctyoma; Neuroaxis dissemination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIENCEPHALON; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EMACIATION; FAILURE TO THRIVE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030912194     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970701)80:1<142::AID-CNCR19>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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