Clear cell ependymoma with a lipidized component that developed in the thoracic spinal cord

Neurological Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 324-328

  Kim, Yeong Jin ^a,c   Tsunoda, Shigeru ^b   Yokoyama, Kazuhiro ^a   Miyamoto, Kazunori ^a   Tamai, Masamitsu ^a   Yamauchi, Michiko ^a  

^a Higashiosaka City General Hospital   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c Higashiosaka City General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clear cell; Ependymoma; Epithelial membrane antigen; Lipidized cell; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPENDYMOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PRURITUS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TENDON REFLEX; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TUMOR VOLUME;

EPENDYMOMA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0038015546     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164103101201625     Document Type: Article

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