Papillary tumor of the pineal region - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 568-571

  Kawahara, Ichiro ^a   Tokunaga, Yoshiharu ^a   Yagi, Nobuhiro ^a   Iseki, Masachika ^b   Abe, Kuniko ^c   Hayashi, Tomayoshi ^c  

^a Nagasaki Prefectural Shimabara Hospital   (Japan)

^b Sasebo Kyosai Hospital   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Ependymoma; Immunohistochemistry; Papillary feature; Pineal region

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLOMA; PINEAL BODY TUMOR;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PINEAL GLAND; PINEALOMA;

EID: 37749010239     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.47.568     Document Type: Article

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