Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: A potentially malignant tumor?

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1515-1522

  De Munnynck, K ^a   Van Gool, S ^a   Van Calenbergh, F ^a   Demaerel, Ph ^a   Uyttebroeck, A ^a   Buyse, G ^a   Sciot, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Desmoplasia; Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma; Infancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESMOPLASTIC SMALL ROUND CELL TUMOR; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PROGNOSIS; STROMA CELL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARBOPLATIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DESMIN; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0036827748     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200211000-00015     Document Type: Article

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