Anaplastic astrocytoma with eosinophilic granular cells

Neuropathology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 457-462

  Kinjo, Sawako ^a   Yokoo, Hideaki ^a   Hirato, Junko ^a   Nakazato, Yoichi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic astrocytoma; Granular cells; Immunohistochemistry; Rosenthal fibers; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ALPHA B CRYSTALLIN ANTIBODY; ANTIBODY; CASPASE 3; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P53; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 1; DISORIENTATION; EOSINOPHIL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABELING INDEX; LOBECTOMY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; ASTROCYTES; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEUS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MITOSIS; NECROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34648834103     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2007.00795.x     Document Type: Article

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