Recurrent neurohypophyseal germinoma causing invasion localized to temporal bone marrow-unreported neuroimaging studies compared to autopsy findings

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 407-411

  Saeki, Naokatsu ^a   Nagano, O ^b   Sakaida, T ^b   Murai, H ^b   Kubota, M ^b   Yamaura, A ^b   Kitou, H ^b   Harigaya, K ^b   Tatsuno, I ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Germinoma; MRI; Neuhypophyseal tumor; Recurrence; Temporal bone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; TEMPORAL BONE;

ADULT; BONE MARROW NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 0035012087     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007010170097     Document Type: Article

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