Intracranial metastases from carcinoma of the cervix

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Agrawal, Amit ^a   Kumar, A ^a   Sinha, A K ^a   Kumar, M ^a   Pandey, S R ^a   Khaniya, S ^a  

^a BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences ^*

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Carcinoma of cervix; Gynaecological malignancy; Intracranial metastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VOMITING; BRAIN TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34249715420     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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