Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor arising from benign vestibular schwannoma treated by gamma knife radiosurgery after two previous surgeries: A case report with surgical and pathological observations

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 751-754

  Akamatsu, Yosuke ^a   Murakami, Kensuke ^a   Watanabe, Mika ^a   Jokura, Hidefumi ^b   Tominaga, Teiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Furukawa Seiryo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CELL TRANSFORMATION; MIXED TUMOR, MALIGNANT; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

AGED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIXED TUMOR, MALIGNANT; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 77957771537     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2010.04.009     Document Type: Review

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