Primary nodular meningeal glioma mimicking metastatic tumor of the cerebellum with diffuse infra- and supratentorial leptomeningeal spread

Clinical Neuropathology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 126-130

  Sell, M ^a,d   Mitrovics, T ^a,b   Sander, B C ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b St Vincentius Krankenhauser K   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Institut fur Pathologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellar tumor; Glioma; Infarct; Primary meningeal glioma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN RADIATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034024251     PISSN: 07225091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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