Benign pleomorphic astrocytoma in the hypothalamus - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-103

  Abe, Tatsuya ^a   Inoue, Ryo ^a   Isono, Mitsuo ^a   Ishii, Keisuke ^a   Fujiki, Minoru ^a   Kamida, Tohru ^a   Kobayashi, Hidenori ^a   Kashima, Kenji ^a   Kusakabe, Takanori ^b   Nakazato, Yoichi ^c  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nannkai Hospital   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma; Pleomorphism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GLIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

EID: 33644682358     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.101     Document Type: Article

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