Gliomatosis cerebri - An uncommon neuroepithelial tumor in children with oligodendroglial phenotype

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 212-215

  Pal, Lily ^a   Behari, Sanjay ^a   Kumar, Shaleen ^a   Kumar, Raj ^a   Shankar, S K ^b   Gupta, R K ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Gliomatosis cerebri; Oligodendrocytes; Oligodendroglioma; Pediatric brain tumors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DYSPHASIA; FEMALE; GLIOMATOSIS CEREBRI; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PAPILLEDEMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PHENOTYPE; RARE DISEASES;

EID: 42349086608     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000120153     Document Type: Article

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