Spontaneous regression of multicentric pilocytic astrocytoma with CSF dissemination in an adult

Brain Tumor Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-156

  Sakai, Keiichi ^a   Miyahara, Takahiro ^a   Tsutsumi, Keiji ^a   Kaneko, Tomoki ^a   Fukushima, Mana ^b   Tanaka, Yuichiro ^c   Hongo, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CSF dissemination; Multicentric glioma; Pilocytic astrocytoma; Spontaneous regression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; METASTASIS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; THALAMUS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BASAL GANGLIA; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; THALAMUS;

EID: 80052743591     PISSN: 14337398     EISSN: 1861387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10014-010-0015-z     Document Type: Article

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