Cerebellar gliomas with exophytic growth - Three case reports

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 411-415

  Yamamoto, Masaaki ^a   Fukushima, Takeo ^a   Sakamoto, Seisaburo ^a   Tsugu, Hitoshi ^a   Nagasaka, Susumu ^a   Hirakawa, Katsuyuki ^a   Utsunomiya, Hidetsuna ^a   Tomonaga, Masamichi ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cerebellar glioma; exophytic growth; glioblastoma of cerebellum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; GROWTH REGULATION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; PONS ANGLE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0030982343     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.37.411     Document Type: Article

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