A case of astrocytoma with extracranial extension after malignant transformation

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-156

  Sakuma, Ikuo ^a   Tomura, Noriaki ^a   Omachi, Koichi ^a   Takahashi, Satoshi ^a   Watarai, Jiro ^a   Sasajima, Toshio ^a   Mizoi, Kazuo ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extracranial extension; Glioblastoma; Low grade astrocytoma; Malignant transformation

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; NIMUSTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037299283     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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