Suprasellar chordoid glioma combined with Rathke's cleft cyst

Pathology International

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 780-785

  Suh, Yeon Lim ^a,d   Kim, Na Rae ^b   Kim, Jong Hyun ^a   Park, Sung Hye ^c  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasm; Chordoid glioma; Rathke's cleft cyst; Suprasellar tumor

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL JUNCTION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHORDOMA; CYST; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROVILLUS; PINOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; SECRETORY GRANULE; SUPRASELLAR CHORDOID GLIOMA;

ANTIGENS, CD34; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; S100 PROTEINS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0344082801     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.2003.01549.x     Document Type: Article

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