Primary spinal cord glioblastoma multiforme: A report of two cases

Neurology India

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 333-335

  Prasad, G Lakshmi ^a   Borkar, Sachin A ^a   Subbarao, Kiran C ^a   Suri, Vaishali ^a   Mahapatra, Ashok K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE DURATION; DISSECTION; FROZEN SECTION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LETTER; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84864423555     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.98530     Document Type: Letter

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