Stereotactic biopsy for brain tumors: Is it always necessary?

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 432-438

  Vaquero, Jesús ^a   Martínez, Roberto ^a,b   Manrique, Miguel ^a,b  

^a Neurosurgical Serv Univ Hosp C   (Spain)

^b Lab of Experimental Neuro Oncology   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Neuro oncology; Stereotactic biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; BIOPSY; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GERMINOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0342749362     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(00)00213-5     Document Type: Article

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