Spinal seeding of a pilocytic astrocytoma following multiple subtotal resections

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 248-252

  Zorlu, Faruk ^a   Selek, Ugur ^a   Akyuz, Canan ^a   Ozturk, Arzu ^a   Soylemezoglu, Figen ^a   Akalan, Nejat ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Pilocytic astrocytoma; Radiation; Spinal seeding

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBELLUM PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; STEROID THERAPY;

ASTROCYTOMA; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM SEEDING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 26244441915     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087483     Document Type: Article

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