Occipital anaplastic oligodendroglioma with multiple organ metastases after a short clinical course: A case report and literature review

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Li, Gang ^a   Zhang, Zhiguo ^a   Zhang, Jianghong ^a   Jin, Tianbo ^b   Liang, Hongjuan ^a   Gong, Li ^a   Cui, Guangbin ^a   Yang, Haixia ^a   He, Shiming ^a   Zhang, Yongsheng ^a   Gao, Guodong ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

1p 19q; Autopsy; Chromosome deletions; Extracranial metastasis; Genetic analysis; Oligodendroglioma

Indexed keywords

BONE MARROW CANCER; BONE TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; GENETICS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

BONE MARROW NEOPLASMS; BONE NEOPLASMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA;

EID: 84897667574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-9-17     Document Type: Article

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