Intraocular malignant teratoid medulloepithelioma in an adult: Clinicopathological case report and review of the literature

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 259-262

  Sosińska Mielcarek, Katarzyna ^a   Senkus Konefka, Elzbieta ^a   Jaskiewicz, Kazimierz ^a   Kordek, Radzislaw ^b   Jassem, Jacek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Embryonal tumour; Medulloepithelioma; Ocular tumour; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENUCLEATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR TUMOR; MALE; MALIGNANT TERATOMA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR GROWTH; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EYE ENUCLEATION; EYE NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; SALVAGE THERAPY; TERATOMA;

EID: 33645462090     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: 16000420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00586.x     Document Type: Article

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