Malignant epidermoid cyst of the pineal region with lumbar metastasis

Neuropathology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 566-569

  Pagni, Fabio ^a,b   Brenna, Ambrogio ^a   Leone, Biagio Eugenio ^a   Vergani, Francesco ^a   Isimbaldi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidermoid malignant cyst; Hydrocephalus; Lumbar metastasis; Pineal region; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; DURA MATER; EPIDERMOID CYST; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PINEAL BODY; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SPINE METASTASIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; EPIDERMAL CYST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; PINEALOMA; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 35748959325     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2007.00820.x     Document Type: Article

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