Congenital anaplastic astrocytoma differentiated into pilocytic astrocytoma: An autopsy case

Neuropathology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 433-439

  Arai, Yoshifumi ^a   Tsuchida, Takashi ^a   Tanioka, Fumihiko ^b   Sugimura, Haruhiko ^a   Watanabe, Chieko ^a   Hongo, Teruaki ^a   Tsutsui, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Iwata City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic astrocytoma; Brain development; Congenital brain tumor; Differentiation; Pilocytic astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67; NEUROFIBROMIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIENCEPHALON; ENUCLEATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; LABELING INDEX; MALE; MENINGEAL CYST; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; ORBIT TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ASTROCYTOMA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 44849126791     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2008.00866.x     Document Type: Article

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