Anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma with a component of anaplastic astrocytoma presenting as skull base tumor followed by downward extracranial extension

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1108-1112

  Tsutsumi, Satoshi ^a   Abe, Yusuke ^a   Yasumoto, Yukimasa ^a   Ito, Masanori ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY URAYASU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaplastic astrocytoma; Anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma; Bone erosion; Extracranial tumor extension

Indexed keywords

TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ANAPLASTIC PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RELAPSE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA; CRANIOTOMY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT; PARANASAL SINUS; SKULL BASE TUMOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 78651365606     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.50.1108     Document Type: Article

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