Malignant disseminated chordoid meningioma in a 12-year-old child: A role for early cranial and spinal radiation treatment after subtotal resection

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1344-1350

  Mullassery, Dhanya ^a   O'Brien, Donncha F ^a,b   Williams, Dawn ^a   Crooks, Daniel ^a   Mallucci, Conor ^a   Pizer, Barry ^a   Thorp, Nicky ^a   McDowell, Heather ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chordoid meningioma; Radiation treatment; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHORDOID MENINGIOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SOMALIA;

CHILD; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; RADIOSURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33749008777     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0096-5     Document Type: Article

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