Non-anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma with neuroradiological evidences of leptomeningeal dissemination

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 614-618

  Passone, Eva ^a   Pizzolitto, Stefano ^b   D'Agostini, Serena ^b   Skrap, Miran ^b   Gardiman, Maria Paola ^c   Nocerino, Agostino ^a   Scarzello, Giovanni ^c   Perilongo, Giorgio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Brain tumours; Childhood; Leptmonenigeal dissemination; Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFUNDIBULUM; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; XANTHOMA;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33646749696     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-005-0008-0     Document Type: Article

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