Complete Recovery of Visual Functions after Multimodality Treatment for Intrinsic Chiasmatic-Hypothalamic Astrocytoma - Case Report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 129-132

  Chernov, Mikhail F ^a,c   Ivanov, Pavel I ^a   Zhinzhina, Irina V ^b   Getmanova, Oksana Yu ^b   Zabrodskaya, Julia M ^b   Tigliev, George S ^a  

^a ALMAZOV NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Russian Federation)

^b Russ A L Polenov Neurosurg Inst   (Russian Federation)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chiasmatic hypothalamic glioma; Outcome; Treatment; Vision

Indexed keywords

LOMUSTINE; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEURITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; PSEUDOBULBAR NEURITIS; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 1842633323     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.129     Document Type: Article

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