Malignant glial tumor arising from the site of a previous hamartoma/ganglioglioma: Coincidence or malignant transformation?

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 132-134

  Mittler, Mark A ^a   Walters, Beverly C ^c   Fried, Arno H ^b   Sotomayor, Edgar A ^d   Stopa, Edward G ^d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Brown University Program in Neurosurgery   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ependymoma; Ganglioglioma; Glioblastoma; Hamartoma; Primitive neuroectodermal tumor; Spinal cord tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

ADULT; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPENDYMOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; GANGLIOGLIOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033037453     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028780     Document Type: Article

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