Cerebral metastasis of a uterine leiomyosarcoma - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 238-241

  Ziyal, Ibrahim M ^a,c   Musluman, Murat ^b   Bejjani, Ghassan K ^a   Tanik, Canan ^b   Türkmen, Cengiz S ^b   Aydin, Yunus ^b  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SISLI ETFAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c Department of Pathology Şişli Etfal Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebral metastasis; Leiomyosarcoma; Uterine tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UTERUS SARCOMA; UTERUS TUMOR;

EID: 0032893696     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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