Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma associated with long-standing Taylor-type IIB-focal cortical dysplasia in an adult

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-117

  Kim, Bomi ^a   Chung, Chun Kee ^a,b   Myung, Jae Kyung ^a   Park, Sung Hye ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Brain; Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CD34 ANTIGEN; GALECTIN 3; PROTEIN P53; RETICULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOBECTOMY; MALE; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 58249096326     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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