Novel low-grade glioneuronal neoplasm presenting in an octogenarian: Case report and review of the literature

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 426-432

  Kuo, Yu Hung ^a   Edgar, Mark A ^a   Luther, Neal ^a   Schwartz, Theodore H ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Glioneuronal tumor; Neuro oncology; Octogenarian; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREMOTOR CORTEX; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASMS, COMPLEX AND MIXED; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646082485     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2005.05.006     Document Type: Article

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