Multiple intracranial mixed germ cell tumors

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 178-181

  Kumabe, Toshihiro ^a   Tominaga, Teiji ^a   Yoshimoto, Takashi ^a   Kayama, Takamasa ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasm; Embryonal carcinoma; Immature teratoma; Mixed germ cell tumor; Multiplicity

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TERATOMA;

BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, EMBRYONAL; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; TERATOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030948122     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050065     Document Type: Article

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