Stereotactic biopsies of brain lesions

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-77

  Teixeira, Manoel Jacobsen ^a,b   Fonoff, Erich Talamoni ^a,b,c   Mandel, Mauricio ^a,b   Alves, Hélvio Leite ^a   Rosemberg, Sergio ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain biopsy; Brain lesions; Cancer; Stereotaxy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN NECROSIS; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMOID CYST; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOSIS; GRANULOMA; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; STROKE;

EID: 66149162805     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2009000100018     Document Type: Article

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