Endodermal cyst ventral to the lower brain stem - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 614-618

  Matsunaga, Shigeo ^a,c   Fujitsu, Kazuhiko ^a   Yagishita, Saburo ^b   Ichikawa, Teruo ^a   Takemoto, Yasunori ^a   Takeda, Yukihiro ^a   Miyahara, Kousuke ^a   Niino, Hitoshi ^a   Shiina, Takeki ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION YOKOHAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA REHABILITATION CENTER   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain stem; Endodermal cyst; Meningitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDODERMAL CYST; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 33845896793     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.614     Document Type: Article

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