Extensive and dense calcification in the core of a ventrally exophytic brainstem glioma

Brain Tumor Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 101-103

  Niimi, Maki ^a   Yoshida, Kazunari ^a   Mayanagi, Keita ^a   Kawase, Takeshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brainstem glioma; Calcification; Exophytic

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; RANIMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR CALCINOSIS;

BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CHILD; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FATAL OUTCOME; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036947772     PISSN: 14337398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02478935     Document Type: Article

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