Ependymoma of the sella turcica: a variant of pituicytoma

Human Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 435-440

  Scheithauer, Bernd W ^a   Swearingen, Brooke ^b,c   Whyte, E Tessa Hedley ^b,c   Auluck, Pavan K ^b,c   Stemmer Rachamimov, Anat O ^b,c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ependymoma; Immunohistochemistry; Pituicytes; Pituitary; Sella turcica; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EPENDYMOMA; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HISTOGENESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INCIDENTAL FINDING; IRIDOTOMY; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PITUITARY GLAND, POSTERIOR; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA; SELLA TURCICA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 59049105773     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2008.08.013     Document Type: Article

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