Unique desmoplastic cerebral tumor in a patient with complex partial seizures

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 234-242

  Jay, Venita ^a   Edwards, Vern ^b   Rutka, James ^b   Mosskin, Mikael ^b   Hwang, Paul ^b   Resch, Lothar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasm; Desmoplastic tumor; Pathology; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBROMA; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GLIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COLLAGEN; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROMA, DESMOPLASTIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 0032057040     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100249900032     Document Type: Article

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