Chordoid glioma with calcification and neurofilament expression: case report and review of the literature

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-120

  Iwami, Ken ichiro ^a   Arima, Toru ^a   Oooka, Fumiharu ^a   Fukumoto, Masatoshi ^a   Takagi, Teruhide ^b   Takayasu, Masakazu ^b  

^a Okazaki City Hospital   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcification; Chordoid glioma; Gamma knife radiosurgery; Neurofilament protein

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHORDOID GLIOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

CALCINOSIS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; RADIOSURGERY; SYNCOPE; THIRD VENTRICLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57249090853     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2007.07.032     Document Type: Article

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