Rare disease: Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma with malignant transformation and multiple recurrences in an Iranian girl

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Binesh, Fariba ^a   Akhavan, Ali ^a   Navabii, Hossein ^a  

^a Shahid Sadoghi Hospital   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN EDEMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL VACUOLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROXANTHOMA; GANGLION CYST; GIANT CELL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRAN; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PLEOMORPHIC XANTHOASTROCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; REOPERATION; SEIZURE; SPINDLE CELL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VOMITING;

EID: 84860803558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.12.2011.5372     Document Type: Article

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