Diagnostic imaging of high-grade astrocytoma: Heterogeneity of clinical manifestation, image characteristics, and histopathological findings

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1151-1157

  Okajima, Kaoru ^a   Ohta, Yoshio ^a  

^a KINDAI UNIVERSITY NARA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glioblastoma; High grade astrocytoma; Histopathology; Image finding; Malignant transformation; Tumor heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INFILTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM GRADING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84868557846     PISSN: 18816096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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