Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma with a malignant course: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-98

  Hoving, Eelco W ^a   Kros, Johan M ^b   Groninger, Ellis ^a   Den Dunnen, Wilfred F A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma; Ganglioglioma; Glioma; Pediatric neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; THIOTEPA; VIMENTIN; VINCRISTINE;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CRANIOTOMY; DESMOPLASTIC INFANTILE GANGLIOGLIOMA; DRUG MEGADOSE; GLIOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEOPLASM; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING;

GANGLIOGLIOMA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; INFANT; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 40849120912     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/PED-08/01/095     Document Type: Article

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