Congenital gemistocytic astrocytoma in a fetus

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 168-171

  Nozaki, Michimasa ^a   Ohnishi, Akiko ^b   Fujimaki, Takamitsu ^c   Nagashima, Kazuo ^b   Cho, Kazutoshi ^b   Sawamura, Yutaka ^b  

^a Kin ikyo Chuo Hospital   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Congenital brain tumor; Fetus; Gemistocytic astrocytoma; Hemorrhage; MRI

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FETUS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 32544447200     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-004-1109-x     Document Type: Article

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