Role of radical surgery for intracranial melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 175-178

  Dashti, Shervin R ^a,c   Cohen, Mark L ^b,c   Cohen, Alan R ^a,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy; Neurocranium; Pediatric tumor; Skull neoplasm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DURA MATER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMOR, MELANOTIC; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033025712     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199907000-00042     Document Type: Article

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