Ossified retroperitoneal malignant Schwannoma with spinal leptomeningeal metastases

Neuroradiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 48-50

  Mortele K ^a   Lemmerling, M ^a   Defreyne, L ^a   Speleman, F ^a   De Potter, C ^a   Van Belle, S ^a   Kunnen, M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Leptomeningeal metastasis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Schwannoma malignant

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEPTOMENINX; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEURILEMMOMA; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031757539     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002340050538     Document Type: Article

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