Anaplastic ganglioglioma with malignant features in both neuronal and glial components

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 228-231

  Kawataki, Tomoyuki ^a   Sato, Eiji ^a   Sato, Takashi ^a   Kinouchi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic ganglioglioma; Dissemination; Malignant transformation; Nestin; Neuronal mitosis

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; CARBOPLATIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NESTIN; NIMUSTINE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN RADIATION; CASE REPORT; DEATH; GLIA CELL; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

EID: 77950440261     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.50.228     Document Type: Article

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