Brain surface spindle cell glioma in a patient with medically intractable partial epilepsy: A variant of monomorphous angiocentric glioma?

Neuropathology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 516-520

  Sugita, Yasuo ^a   Ono, Tomonori ^b   Ohshima, Koichi ^a   Niino, Daisuke ^b   Ito, Masahiro ^b   Toda, Keisuke ^b   Baba, Hiroshi ^b  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic features; Angiocentric neuroepithelial tumor; Brain surface; Epilepsy; Monomorphous angiocentric glioma

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; CYTOPLASM; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOMA; GLIOMA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LABELING INDEX; MALE; MONOMORPHOUS ANGIOCENTRIC GLIOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; ROSETTE FORMATION; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 46449111475     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2007.00849.x     Document Type: Article

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