Melanocytic medulloblastoma with ganglioneurocytomatous differentiation: A case report

Neuropathology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-77

  Kubota, Kanako C ^a   Itoh, Tomoo ^a   Yamada, Yosuke ^a   Yamaguchi, Shigeru ^a   Ishida, Yuji ^b   Nakasu, Yoko ^b   Watanabe, Reiko ^b   Ito, Ichiro ^b   Sawamura, Yutaka ^a   Matsuno, Yoshihiro ^a   Nagashima, Kazuo ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c Sapporo Higashi Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ganglioneurocytoma; HMB45; INI1 BAF45 expression; Melanocytic medulloblastoma; MIB1 index

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; MELAN A; PROTEIN S 100; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MELANOSOMES; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEUROCYTOMA; NEURONS; NEUROPIL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; S100 PROTEINS; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 58449131945     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2008.00913.x     Document Type: Article

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