Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors of cranial nerves and intracranial contents: A clinicopathologic study of 17 cases

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 325-338

  Scheithauer, Bernd W ^a   Erdogan, Sibel ^a   Rodriguez, Fausto J ^a   Burger, Peter C ^b   Woodruff, James M ^c   Kros, Johan M ^d   Gokden, Murat ^e   Spinner, Robert J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial nerve; Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor; Malignant transformation; Neurofibroma; Schwannoma

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN S 100;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE TUMOR; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; IRRADIATION; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; OPTIC CHIASM; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; VAGUS NERVE; VESTIBULAR NERVE; BRAIN TUMOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 62849085416     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31818d6470     Document Type: Article

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