Spontaneous regression of septum pellucidum/forniceal pilocytic astrocytomas - Possible role of Cannabis inhalation

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 671-679

  Foroughi, Mansoor ^a   Hendson, Glenda ^a   Sargent, Michael A ^a   Steinbok, Paul ^a  

^a BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cannabinoids; Cannabis; Fornix; Pilocytic astrocytoma; Septum pellucidum; Tumor regression

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN INTERVENTRICULAR FORAMEN; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGRESSION; CANNABIS SMOKING; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FORNICEAL PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; NAUSEA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM ASTROCYTOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; FORNIX, BRAIN; HUMANS; INHALATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARIJUANA SMOKING; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

EID: 79953829944     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-011-1410-4     Document Type: Article

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