Papillary tumors of the pineal region: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Dagnew, Elias ^a,b   Langford, Lauren A ^a   Lang, Frederick F ^a   DeMonte, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ependymoma; Metastasis; Papillary tumor; Pineal region; Subcommissural organ

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPENDYMA CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROSURGERY; MORPHOLOGY; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PAPILLOMA; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PINEAL GLAND; PINEALOMA;

EID: 34247590344     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255443.44365.77     Document Type: Article

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