Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma with calcification

Neuropathology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 318-322

  Bhardwaj, Minakshi ^a,b   Sharma, Alok ^a   Pal, Hillol K ^a  

^a DR RAM MANOHAR LOHIA HOSPITAL   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Calcification; Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma; Intracranial

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DESMOPLASTIC INFANTILE GANGLIOGLIOMA; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; GLIOMA; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GANGLIOGLIOMA; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33746147368     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2006.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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