Thalamic tumors: Clinical presentation

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 405-411

  Martínez Lage, Juan F ^a   Pérez Espejo, Miguel A ^a   Esteban, Juan A ^b   Poza, Máximo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Basal ganglia tumors; Brain tumors; Intracranial hypertension; Thalamic tumors; Tumoral hydrocephalus

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EYE DISEASE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MACROCEPHALY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; PARESIS; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036704854     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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