Tanycytic ependymoma of the spinal cord with anaplastic cytological features

Brain Tumor Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-10

  Shintaku, Masayuki ^a   Nagata, Norikazu ^b   Itoh, Hiroshi ^b  

^a OSAKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TAKEDA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplasia; Spinal cord; Tanycytic ependymoma

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ACHILLES REFLEX; ADULT; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL DEATH; CELL INCLUSION; CELL LABELING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; EPENDYMA CELL; EPENDYMOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LABELING INDEX; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; ROSETTE FORMATION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINDLE CELL; TANYCYTE; TANYCYTIC EPENDYMOMA; TUMOR CELL; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; ANAPLASIA; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 65149088189     PISSN: 14337398     EISSN: 1861387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10014-008-0239-3     Document Type: Article

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