Cerebellar gliomas children with NF1: Pathology and surgery

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 417-420

  Vinchon, Matthieu ^a   Soto Ares, Gustavo ^a   Ruchoux, Marie Madeleine ^a   Dhellemmes, Patrick ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anaplastic astrocytoma; Cerebellar neoplasms; Ganglioglioma; Neurofibromatosis type 1; Pilocytic astrocytoma; Tumor growth rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0033915535     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00007285     Document Type: Article

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