Autopsy findings of a craniopharyngioma with a natural course over 60 years

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 536-540

  Inenaga, Chikanori ^a   Kakita, Akiyoshi ^a   Iwasaki, Yoichi ^b   Yamatani, Keiichi ^b   Takahashi, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Labour Health and Welfare Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

autopsy; Craniopharyngioma; dwarfism; natural course; reactive astrocytosis

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; STEROID; THYROID HORMONE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CALCIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMAGING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; OSSIFICATION; SHORT STATURE; SQUAMOUS CELL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AUTOPSY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2542574787     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2003.08.014     Document Type: Article

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