A severe form of epidermal nevus syndrome associated with brainstem and cerebellar malformations and neonatal medulloblastoma

Brain and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 881-885

  Okumura, Akihisa ^a   Lee, Tsubasa ^a   Ikeno, Mitsuru ^a   Shimojima, Keiko ^b   Kajino, Kazunori ^a   Inoue, Yuka ^a   Yoshikawa, Naomi ^a   Suganuma, Hiroki ^a   Suzuki, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Hisata, Ken ^a   Shoji, Hiromichi ^a   Takanashi, Jun ichi ^c   James Barkovich, A ^d   Shimizu, Toshiaki ^a   Yamamoto, Toshiyuki ^b   Hayashi, Masaharu ^e  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brainstem anomaly; Cerebellar anomaly; Epidermal nevus; Medulloblastoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRANULE CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MACROCEPHALY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MESENCEPHALON; MICROGYRIA; NEVUS UNIUS LATERIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHAKOMATOSIS; PURKINJE CELL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TECTUM;

BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLUM; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEVUS, SEBACEOUS OF JADASSOHN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84867696172     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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