A case of primary meningeal melanocytoma of the left middle fossa

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1023-1028

  Yukawa, Hirotsugu ^a   Seki, Hirobumi ^b   Sugawara, Takayuki ^b   Boku, Nagatoshi ^b   Higuchi, Hiroshi ^b   Ono, Sadahide ^b  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Malignant melanoma; Melanophage; Meningeal melanocytoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOCYTOSIS; MELANOMA; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SIGNAL DETECTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MELANOMA; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141814981     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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