Granular cell astrocytoma

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1946-1950

  Shi, Yan ^a   Morgenstern, Nora ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HISTOGENESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; ASTROCYTES; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; S100 PROTEINS;

EID: 57349085707     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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