Malignant glioneuronal tumor of the adult cerebrum with neuropil-like islands involving proliferating nodules: Confirmatory report of an unusual variant

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 711-713

  Vajtai, Istvan ^a   Reinert, Michael M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SIZE; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GANGLIONEUROMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPIL; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 34249898352     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-007-0219-4     Document Type: Letter

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