Lipidized (foamy) tumor cells in a spinal cord ependymoma with collagenous metaplasia

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 421-425

  Takahashi, Hitoshi ^a   Goto, Jun ^a   Emura, Iwao ^b   Honma, Takao ^b   Hasegawa, Kazuhiro ^b   Uchiyama, Seiji ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagenous metaplasia; Ependymoma; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Lipidized cell; Spinal cord tumor

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METAPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

COLLAGEN; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METAPLASIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031937797     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050819     Document Type: Article

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