Embryonal tumor with abundant neuropil and true rosettes: An autopsy case-based update and review of the literature

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 849-854

  Adamek, Dariusz ^a   Sofowora, Kolawole D ^a   Cwiklinska, Magdalena ^b   Herman Sucharska, Izabela ^a   Kwiatkowski, Stanislaw ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Embryonal tumor with abundant neuropil and true rosettes; Ependymoblastoma; ETANTR; Immunohistochemistry; Pediatric brain tumor; Primitive neuroectodermal tumor

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IRINOTECAN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEAD TILTING; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROPIL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSETTE FORMATION; VOMITING;

BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NEUROPIL; ROSETTE FORMATION;

EID: 84876667794     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-013-2037-4     Document Type: Article

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