Unusual malignant glioneuronal tumors of the cerebrum of adults: A clinicopathologic study of three cases

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 727-737

  Rodriguez, Fausto J ^a   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^a   Port, John D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Glioma; Glioneuronal; Immunohistochemistry; Neuronal differentiation; Neuronal tumor

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN; EOSIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEMATOXYLIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MITOSIS; MULTIPLE CANCER; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPINDLE CELL; STAINING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33750328899     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-006-0129-x     Document Type: Article

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