Primary meningeal malignant fibrous histiocytoma with cerebrospinal dissemination and pulmonary metastasis

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1191-1196

  Akimoto, J ^a   Takeda, Y ^a   Hasue, M ^a   Ito, H ^a   Kiguchi, E ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electronmicroscopy; Extracranial metastasis; Malignant fibrous histiocytoma; Meningeal sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0031786038     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007010050236     Document Type: Article

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