Thymic Carcinoma Presenting as Cranial Metastasis with Intradural and Extracranial Extension: Case Report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 209-212

  Tamura, Yoji ^a   Kuroiwa, Toshihiko ^a   Doi, Atsushi ^a   Min, Kyong Yob ^a   Sekhar, Laligam N ^b   Stimac, Dinko ^b   Dolenc, Vinko V ^b   Harsh IV, Griffith R ^b  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cranium; Metastasis; Skull; Thymic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; GEMCITABINE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DURA MATER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL BONE; OSTEOLYSIS; PALPATION; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP TUMOR; SKULL TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 0346970914     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000097554.14112.55     Document Type: Article

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