Orbital ectopic glial tissue in relation to medial rectus: A rare entity

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-69

  Ghose, Supriyo ^a   Balasubramaniam, Sankarapuram T ^a   Mahindrakar, Avinash ^a   Sharma, Vidushi ^a   Sen, Seema ^b   Sarkar, Chitra ^b   Chhabra, Manpreet Singh ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Ectopic glioma; Glial choristoma; Glial hamartoma; Heterotopic brain

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC TISSUE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; GLIA; HAMARTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; ORBIT TUMOR; STAINING;

BRAIN; CHORISTOMA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; MALE; NEUROGLIA; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORBITAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 14744301372     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2004.00945.x     Document Type: Article

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