Meningeal melanocytoma extruded from the skull of a neonate

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 240-242

  Nakahara, Kuniaki ^a   Morota, Nobuhito ^b   Ihara, Satoshi ^b   Oka, Hidehiro ^a   Matsuoka, Kentaro ^b   Nakagawa, Atsuko ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Extrusion; Meningeal melanocytoma; Neonate; Neoplasm

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S 100;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATION PERIOD; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MENINGEAL MELANOCYTOMA; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL BONE; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 77950372144     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.50.240     Document Type: Article

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