Pilomyxoid astrocytoma of the cervical spinal cord in a child with rapid progression into glioblastoma: Case report and literature review

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-321

  Paraskevopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Patsalas, Ioannis ^a   Karkavelas, Georgios ^a   Foroglou, Nikolaos ^a   Magras, Ioannis ^a   Selviaridis, Panagiotis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Intramedullary; Pilocytic astrocytoma; Pilomyxoid astrocytoma; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; GADOLINIUM; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAMINOPLASTY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PILOMYXOID ASTROCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ASTROCYTOMA; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78951469135     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-010-1171-5     Document Type: Article

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