Medulloblastoma or cerebellar dysplastic gangliocytoma (Lhermitte-Duclos disease)?

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 404-406

  Chen, Kuo Shin ^a   Hung, Po Cheng ^a   Wang, Huei Shyong ^a   Jung, Shih Ming ^a   Ng, Shu Hang ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ENOLASE; ETOPOSIDE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBELLUM; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; DYSMETRIA; GANGLIONEUROMA; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LHERMITTE DUCLOS DISEASE; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR RETARDATION; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLEDEMA; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSETTE FORMATION; TUMOR CELL;

CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY; GADOLINIUM; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036868354     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(02)00455-1     Document Type: Article

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