Pineal tumors

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 419-427

  Dahiya, Sonika ^a   Perry, Arie ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

papillary tumor of the pineal region; pineal parenchymal tumors

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PAPILLOMA; PATHOLOGY; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PINEALOCYTE; PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVIEW; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PINEAL GLAND; PINEALOMA;

EID: 78149260561     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAP.0b013e3181f895a4     Document Type: Review

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