A case of anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma presenting with tumor bleeding and cerebrospinal fluid dissemination

Brain Tumor Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-63

  Asano, Kenichiro ^a   Miyamoto, Seiichi ^b   Kubo, Osami ^c   Kikkukawa, Tomoshige ^a   Yagihashi, Akinori ^a   Ohkuma, Hiroki ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tsugaru Kensei Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma; Dissemination; Tumor bleeding

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPENDYMOMA; FATALITY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECURRENT CANCER; TUMOR BLEEDING;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33750037040     PISSN: 14337398     EISSN: 1861387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10014-006-0197-6     Document Type: Article

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