Intracranial germinoma with Down's syndrome: A case report and review of the literature

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-31

  Tanabe, Michiharu ^a,b   Mizushima, Minoru ^b   Anno, Yuichi ^b   Kondou, Shinji ^b   Dejima, Sunao ^a   Hirao, D Jun ^b   Kamitani, Hideki ^b   Watanabe, Takashi ^b   Hori, Tomokatsu ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

basal ganglia; brain tumor; Down's syndrome; germ cell tumor; germinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN SYNDROME; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0031023915     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(96)00152-8     Document Type: Article

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