A 15 year old boy with a posterior fossa tumor

Brain Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 349-352

  Chapman, Erin M ^a   Ranger, Adrianna ^a   Lee, Donald H ^a   Hammond, Robert R ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUBULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXCISION; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLEDEMA; PIGMENTED PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PROGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PIGMENTATION;

EID: 61649107695     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: 17503639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2009.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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