Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma - Clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study of four cases

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 9-10, 2002, Pages 463-467

  Rout, Pritilata ^a   Santosh, Vani ^a   Mahadevan, Anita ^a   Kolluri, V R Sastry ^a   Yasha, T C ^a   Shankar, S K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Desmoplasia; Ganglioglioma; Immunohistochemistry; Infantile neuroepithelial tumour

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P53; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESMOPLASTIC INFANTILE GANGLIOGLIOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROEPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TUMOR CELL;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0036817274     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0610-3     Document Type: Review

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