Interstitial fluid flow along white matter tracts: A potentially important mechanism for the dissemination of primary brain tumors

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-201

  Geer, Carol P ^a   Grossman, Stuart A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytomas; Brain edema; Glioblastoma multiforme; Metastases; Quantitative autoradiography

Indexed keywords

EVANS BLUE; INULIN; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; ASTROCYTOMA CELL; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CELL MOTION; FRONTAL LOBE; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; MALE; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARENCHYMA; RAT; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EVANS BLUE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOBLASTOMA; INULIN; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0031040638     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005761031077     Document Type: Article

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