Intracranial meningeal melanocytoma - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 504-509

  Hamasaki, Osamu ^a   Nakahara, Toshinori ^a   Sakamoto, Shigeyuki ^a   Kutsuna, Munenori ^a   Sakoda, Katsuaki ^a  

^a MAZDA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellopontine angle; Gamma knife radiosurgery; Magnetic resonance imaging; Meningeal melanocytoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEPTOMENINX; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036858402     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.42.504     Document Type: Article

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