Teratoid malignant medulloepithelioma of the optic nerve: Report of a case and review of the literature

Orbit

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 191-196

  Biswas, Jyotirmay ^a   Bhushan, Bibhuti ^a   Jayakumar, Navin ^a   Chidambaram, B ^b  

^a VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b CIT Colony   (India)

Author keywords

Children; Computer tomography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medulloepithelioma; Optic nerve; Proptosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXOPHTHALMOS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; OPTIC NERVE TUMOR;

EID: 0033380934     PISSN: 01676830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/orbi.18.3.191.2701     Document Type: Article

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