Secondary Glioblastoma Remarkably Reduced by Steroid Administration After Anaplastic Transformation from Gliomatosis Cerebri: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 865-870

  Hirose, Yuichi ^a   Hayashi, Takuro ^a   Sagoh, Masachika ^a   Murakami, Hideki ^a  

^a ASHIKAGA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

anaplastic transformation; gliomatosis cerebri; magnetic resonance imaging; steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LOBECTOMY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; STEROID THERAPY; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ASTROCYTOMA; BETAMETHASONE; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032417369     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.38.865     Document Type: Article

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