Intracranial calcifications in childhood medulloblastoma: Relation to nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 790-794

  Stavrou, Theodora ^a,b   Dubovsky, Elizabeth C ^a   Reaman, Gregory H ^a   Goldstein, Alisa M ^b   Vezina, Gilbert ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL NEVUS SYNDROME; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASAL CELL NEVUS SYNDROME; BRAIN DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034114349     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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