Treatments of hamartoma with neuroendoscopic surgery and stereotactic radiosurgery: A case report

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 235-239

  Akai, T ^a   Okamoto, K ^a   Iizuka, H ^a   Kakinuma, H ^a   Nojima, T ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hamartoma; MRI; Neuroendoscopy; SRS

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LASER COAGULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VIOLENCE;

BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHORISTOMA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LASER COAGULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; THIRD VENTRICLE;

EID: 0036953075     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-36196     Document Type: Article

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