Primary yolk sac tumor in the cerebellar vermis. case report

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-177

  Nakamura, Taigen ^a   Kanamori, Masayuki ^a   Sonoda, Yukihiko ^a   Watanabe, Mika ^b   Kumabe, Toshihiro ^a   Tominaga, Teiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellar vermis; Germ cell tumor; Yolk sac tumor

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PLACENTA ISOENZYME; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHOLINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CISPLATIN; CYTOKERATIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IFOSFAMIDE; LIPID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; VIMENTIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GAIT DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMB; MALE; METASTASIS; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 60749123905     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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