Highly anaplastic extraventricular ependymoma arising in an adult, mimicking metastatic adenocarcinoma with heavy stromal inflammation and emperiporesis

Pathology International

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 539-546

  Moritani, Suzuko ^a   Kushima, Ryoji ^a   Bamba, Masamichi ^a   Kobayashi, Tadao K ^a   Oka, Hideki ^a   Fujimoto, Masato ^a   Hattori, Takanori ^a   Okabe, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic; Astroblastoma; Emperiporesis; Ependymoma; Extraventricular; Grade IV; Tanycytic ependymoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOKERATIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EPENDYMOMA; EPITHELIOID CELL; EXTRAVENTRICULAR EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; WHITE MATTER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0041885494     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.2003.01517.x     Document Type: Article

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