Giant cell ependymoma: A case report

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 176-181

  Adamek, Dariusz ^a   Dec, Malgorzata ^a   Sobol, Grazyna ^b   Urbanowicz, Barbara ^c   Jaworski, Marian ^d  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Upper Silesia Centre for Child's Health   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^d Neurosurgical Department   (Poland)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Ependymoma; Giant cell ependymoma; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPENDYMOMA; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL TUMOR; HEADACHE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; LATERAL VENTRICLES;

EID: 38149114664     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.09.018     Document Type: Article

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