Extracranial metastasis of anaplastic ganglioglioma through a ventriculoperitoneal shunt: A case report

Pathology International

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 258-263

  Araki, Masahiro ^a   Fan, Jianglin ^a   Haraoka, Seiji ^a   Moritake, Takashi ^b   Yoshii, Yoshihiko ^b,c   Watanabe, Teruo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic ganglioglioma; Astrocytoma; Shunt metastasis

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; NIMUSTINE;

ADULT; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FILTER; GLIA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PLEURA METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS;

EID: 0032946108     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.1999.00857.x     Document Type: Article

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