Solitary brain metastasis from medullary carcinoma of the thyroid

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 905-909

  Mikami, Takeshi ^a   Niwa, Jun ^b   Kubota, Tsukasa ^b   Chiba, Masahiko ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Carcinoma; Medullary

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE; 17 HYDROXYCORTICOSTEROID; 17 OXOSTEROID; BLEOMYCIN; CALCITONIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CISPLATIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67; OCTREOTIDE; PROTEIN RET; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; THYROTROPIN; VASOPRESSIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTO ONCOGENE; RADIATION DOSE; STENT; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0042513702     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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