Diagnosis and management of intracranial malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 825-832

  Chen, Liang ^a   Mao, Ying ^a   Chen, Hong ^a   Zhou, Liang Fu ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; MENINGIOMA; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; OSTEOID OSTEOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; ADOLESCENT; CRANIAL NERVE TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48949119539     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000318167.97966.f3     Document Type: Article

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