Brain stem glioblastoma with multiple large cyst formation and leptomeningeal dissemination in a 4-year-old girl

Brain and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-61

  Kanai, Rie ^a   Tasaka, Masaru ^a   Sejima, Hitoshi ^a   Uchida, Nobue ^a   Nakano, Akinobu ^a   Akiyama, Yasuhiko ^a   Yamasaki, Toshiki ^a   Yamaguchi, Seiji ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brainstem neoplasm; Childhood; Cyst formation; Leptomeningeal dissemination; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; LEPTOMENINX; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ARACHNOID; ARACHNOID CYSTS; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; PIA MATER; SPINAL CORD; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

EID: 11144225490     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2004.03.007     Document Type: Article

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