A rare case of intracranial metastatic amelanotic melanoma with cyst

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 548-551

  Ogawa, R ^a,b   Aoki, R ^a   Hyakusoku, H ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACARBAZINE; NIMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; EXCISION; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; LUNG METASTASIS; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN METASTASIS;

BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 0038344289     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.56.7.548     Document Type: Article

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