Surgical treatment for choroid plexus tumors in the fourth ventricle: Brain stem infiltration hinders total extirpation

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-172

  Kumabe, Toshihiro ^a   Fujimura, Miki ^a   Jokura, Hidefumi ^b   Tominaga, Teiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Furukawa Seiryo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain stem; Choroid plexus carcinoma; Choroid plexus papilloma; Fourth ventricle; Invasion; Telovelar approach

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN STEM; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM; CARCINOMA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOURTH VENTRICLE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAPILLOMA, CHOROID PLEXUS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 41049085979     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-007-0103-7     Document Type: Article

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