Sudden death due to primary intracranial neoplasms. A forensic autopsy study

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3 B, 2006, Pages 2463-2466

  Vougiouklakis, Theodore ^a   Mitselou, Antigony ^a   Agnantis, Niki J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Forensic autopsy; Glioblastoma; Intracranial tumors; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DEATH, SUDDEN; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33745554689     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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