Benign cerebellar pilocytic astrocytomas in children;Çocukluk Çaǧı benign serebellar pilositik astrositomaları

Turkish Neurosurgery

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-26

  Bilginer, Burcak ^a   Narin, Firat ^a   Oguz, Kader Karli ^a   Uzun, Sennur ^a   Soylemezoglu, Figen ^a   Akalan, Nejat ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Astrocytomas; Brain tumor; Cerebellum; Childhood; Pilocytic astrocytoma

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751474244     PISSN: 10195149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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