Giant solid-cystic hypothalamic hamartoma: Case report

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Dorfer, Christian ^a   Kasprian, Gregor ^a   Mühlebner, Angelika ^b   Czech, Thomas ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Pediatrics Epilepsy Monitoring Unit   (Austria)

Author keywords

Giant hypothalamic hamartoma; Hydrocephalus; Hypothalamic hamartoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CYST; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REOPERATION;

CORPUS CALLOSUM; CYSTS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REOPERATION;

EID: 79551697899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.1.FOCUS10240     Document Type: Article

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