Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumors: A new entity?

Brain Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 361-366

  Gardiman, Marina Paola ^a   Fassan, Matteo ^a   Orvieto, Enrico ^a   D'Avella, Domenico ^a   Denaro, Luca ^a   Calderone, Milena ^a   Severino, Mariasavina ^a   Scarsello, Giovanni ^a   Viscardi, Elisabetta ^a   Perilongo, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Glioneuronal tumors; Leptomeningeal tumors; Pediatric oncology

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; GADOLINIUM; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN AQUEDUCT; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; CHROMATIN; CISTERNA MAGNA; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; CONFUSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONUS MEDULLARIS; DETERIORATION; DIZZINESS; DURA MATER; DYSARTHRIA; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GRANULAR CELL; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LEPTOMENINGEAL GLIONEURONAL TUMOR; LEPTOMENINX; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOLUS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PONS ANGLE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PREGNANCY TOXEMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SELLA TURCICA; SOMNOLENCE; SPINAL CORD BIOPSY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT DURATION; VOMITING; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 75949091170     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: 17503639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2009.00285.x     Document Type: Article

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