Cerebral granular cell tumor

Neuropathology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 417-421

  Lee, Dakeun ^a   Suh, Yeon Lim ^a,b   Nam, Do H ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Granular cell astrocytoma; Granular cell tumor; Histogenesis; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN; CHLORDANE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LYSOZYME; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CELL GRANULE; CELL STRUCTURE; FOLLOW UP; GLIA CELL; GLIOBLASTOMA; GRANULAR CELL; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HEADACHE; HISTOGENESIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WHITE MATTER;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 44849083943     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2007.00846.x     Document Type: Article

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