Total resection of a hemorrhagic tectal pilocytic astrocytoma - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 219-221

  Oka, Fumiaki ^a   Yamashita, Yoji ^a   Kumabe, Toshihiro ^a   Tominaga, Teiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intratumoral hemorrhage; Pilocytic astrocytoma; Surgery; Tectum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BLEEDING; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERTIGO;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CORPORA QUADRIGEMINA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE;

EID: 34249655120     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.47.219     Document Type: Article

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