Cervico-medullary desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: An unusual case with diffuse leptomeningeal dissemination at diagnosis

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 986-990

  Milanaccio, Claudia ^a   Nozza, Paolo ^a   Ravegnani, Marcello ^a   Rossi, Andrea ^a   Raso, Alessandro ^a   Gambini, Claudio ^a   Garrè, Maria Luisa ^a   Pietsch, Torsten ^b  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Desmoplastic infantile; Ganglioglioma; Low grade gliomas

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; DESMOPLASTIC INFANTILE GANGLIOGLIOMA; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPTOMENINX; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 27644482763     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.20325     Document Type: Article

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