Dilemmas in management of brain tumours in pregnancy

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-65

  Lew, Pei Shi ^a   Tan, Wei Ching ^a   Tan, Wei Keat ^a   Tan, Hak Koon ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIMIGRAVIDA; WEAKNESS;

EID: 75749100257     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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