Metastatic brain tumors: A retrospective review in east azarbyjan (Tabriz)

Acta Medica Iranica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-117

  Miabi, Zinat ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brain; Cerebrum; Neoplasm; Neoplasm metastasis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; IRAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIMARY TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; IRAN; NAUSEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; VOMITING;

EID: 79955735068     PISSN: 00446025     EISSN: 17359694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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