Pontine malignant astrocytoma with hemorrhagic onset: Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 404-408

  Nishimuta, Yosuke ^a   Niiro, Masaki ^a   Kamezawa, Takashi ^a   Ishimaru, Koichi ^a   Yokoyama, Shunichi ^a   Kuratsu, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Hemorrhage; Hemorrhagic onset; Malignant astrocytoma; Pontine glioma

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; NIMUSTINE;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE;

EID: 0042320348     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.43.404     Document Type: Article

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