Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors developing multifocally in the central nervous system in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 2

Clinical Neuropathology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-120

  Higami, Y ^a   Shimokawa, I ^a   Kishikawa, M ^a   Okimoto, T ^b   Ohtani, H ^a   Tomita, M ^a   Tsujino, A ^a   Ikeda, T ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Intracranial malignant neoplasms; Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST); Neurofibroma; Neurofibromatosis type 2; p53 protein

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; S100 PROTEINS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0031953339     PISSN: 07225091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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