Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis in a 2-year-old girl

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 713-719

  Dörner, Lutz ^a   Fritsch, Michael J ^b   Hugo, Hans H ^a   Mehdorn, H Maximilian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Hydrocephalus; PDLG; Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; ATAXIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFUSE LEPTOMENINGEAL GLIOMATOSIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERALGESIA; INTERMITTENT STRABISMUS; LEPTOMENINX; MENINGEAL BIOPSY; MENINGITIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SPEECH; SPINAL CORD BIOPSY; SURVIVAL TIME; VOMITING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 67349128381     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2008.01.036     Document Type: Article

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