A 15-year-old girl with a cystic brain tumor [4]

Brain Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 468-469

  Al Agha, Osama M ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ASTROCYTOMA; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTES; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 35148823150     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2007.00091_4.x     Document Type: Letter

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