Intracranial metastasis of Wilms' tumor involving the tectal plate without pulmonary involvement. Case report

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 331-334

  Harada, Katsumi ^a   Nishizaki, Takafumi ^a   Kwak, Taeshik ^a   Fujisawa, Hirosuke ^a   Nishikawa, Miki ^a   Ito, Haruhide ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Tectal plate; Wilms' tumor; Without pulmonary involvement

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPORA QUADRIGEMINA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 0032827729     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028819     Document Type: Article

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