Brain melanoma presented in a young child with neurocutaneous melanocytosis

Journal of B.U.ON.

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 598-

  Christianakis, E ^a   Papatzimas, K ^a   Papavasiliou, A ^a   Pashalidis, N ^b   Rizos, S ^b   Filippou, Dimitrios ^b  

^a Children's Hospital   (Greece)

^b TZANEIO GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN;

BRAIN MELANOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONVULSION; CRANIOTOMY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXCITATION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MELANOMA; NAUSEA; NEUROCUTANEOUS MELANOCYTOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOSIS; NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 58149343612     PISSN: 11070625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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