Newly codified glial neoplasms of the 2007 WHO classification of tumours of the central nervous system: Angiocentric glioma, pilomyxoid astrocytoma and pituicytoma

Brain Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-324

  Brat, Daniel J ^a   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^b   Fuller, Gregory N ^c   Tihan, Tarik ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ANGIOCENTRIC GLIOMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOGENETICS; GLIOMA; HISTOGENESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PILOMYXOID ASTROCYTOMA; PITUICYTOMA; PROGNOSIS; SPINDLE CELL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASTROCYTOMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; NEUROGLIA; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34347271946     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2007.00082.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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