Multicentric juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma occurring primarily in the trigone of the lateral ventricle

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 477-481

  Sim, Ki Bum ^a   Hong, Seung Kuan ^a  

^a Bundang Jesaeng Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma; Multicentric spread; Spontaneous regression; Trigone of the lateral ventricle

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASTROCYTOMA; CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0032862120     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050443     Document Type: Article

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