Posterior fossa tumours in children and adolescents. A clinicopathological study of 216 cases

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 251-252

  Zakrzewski, Krzysztof ^a   Fiks, Tomasz ^a   Polis, Lech ^a   Liberski, Paweł P ^a,b  

^a POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ependymoma; Medulloblastoma; Paediatric brain tumours; Pilocytic astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDERMOID CYST; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TERATOMA; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0442326206     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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