Complications and Diagnostic Yield of Stereotactic Biopsy for the Patients with Malignant Brain Tumors

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-140

  Takahashi, Hideaki ^a   Sugai, Tsutomu ^a   Uzuka, Takeo ^a   Kano, Mizuho ^a   Honma, Junpei ^a   Grinev, Igor ^a   Tanaka, Ryuichi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Complication; Diagnostic yield; Stereotactic biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; CRANIOTOMY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELDERLY CARE; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEMATOMA; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 1642545681     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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