Multifocal pilocytic astrocytomas with ependymal differentiation in the bilateral medial temporal lobes - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 411-414

  Maruyama, Keisuke ^a   Morita, Akio ^a   Shibahara, Junji ^a   Nakazato, Yoichi ^b   Kirino, Takaaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral temporal lobes; Multifocal pilocytic astrocytomas; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; VINCRISTINE;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPENDYMA CELL; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPENDYMA; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARESIS; RADIOTHERAPY; SEIZURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24744469039     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.411     Document Type: Article

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