Disseminated spinal and cerebral ependymoma with unusual histological pattern: Clinicopathological study of a case with retrograde tumor spread

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 135-141

  Nagańska, Ewa ^a   Matyja, Ewa ^a   Zabek, Mirosław ^b   Jagielski, Janusz ^b  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^b Brodnowski Hospital Warsaw   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anaplastic ependymoma; CSF retrograde spread; Intracranial and intraspinal metastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL DENSITY; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISSEMINATED CANCER; EPENDYMOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0034590640     PISSN: 00283894     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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