Astroblastoma presenting with intracerebral hemorrhage misdiagnosed as dural arteriovenous fistula: review of a rare entity

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 308-313

  Alaraj, Ali ^a   Chan, Michael ^a   Oh, Stephen ^a   Michals, Edward ^a   Valyi Nagy, Tibor ^a   Hersonsky, Tamir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous fistula; Astroblastoma; Intracerebral bleeding

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEMOSIDERIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ASTROBLASTOMA; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYALINE DEGENERATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RARE DISEASE; ROSETTE FORMATION;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL;

EID: 33847040035     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.05.050     Document Type: Article

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