Intracranial falx chondroma: Literature review and a case report

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-13

  Fountas, Kostas N ^a   Stamatiou, Stavros ^a   Barbanis, Sotiris ^a   Kourtopoulos, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chondroma; Falx; Histopathology; Imaging characteristics; Outcome; Surgical extirpation

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CANCER SURGERY; CARTILAGE CELL; CHONDROMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; EPENDYMA; FIBROBLAST; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACRANIAL FALX CHONDROMA; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MENINGIOMA; MICROSCOPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SKULL BASE;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHONDROMA; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 37249084559     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.08.020     Document Type: Review

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