Malignant intracerebral nerve sheath tumor with intratumoral calcification. Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 338-341

  Tanaka, Minoru ^a   Shibui, Soichiro ^b   Nomura, Kazuhiro ^b   Nakanishi, Yukihiro ^b   Hasegawa, Tadashi ^b   Hirose, Takanori ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Intraparenchymal lesion; Malignant nerve sheath tumor; Neuraxial location

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CALCINOSIS;

EID: 0033970027     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2000.92.2.0338     Document Type: Article

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