Unusual tumors of the posterior fossa skull base

Skull Base

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-84

  Kumar, Raj ^a   Wani, Abrar Ahad ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Hemangiopericytoma; Metastasis; Skull base tumors

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARAGANGLIOMA; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL BASE TUMOR; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

EID: 34248661257     PISSN: 15315010     EISSN: 15320065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-934103     Document Type: Article

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