Desmoplastic non-infantile astrocytic tumor with BRAF V600E mutation

Brain Tumor Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 282-288

  Karabagli, Pinar ^a   Karabagli, Hakan ^a   Kose, Dogan ^a   Kocak, Nadir ^a   Etus, Volkan ^b   Koksal, Yavuz ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN S 100; RETICULIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VIMENTIN; VINCRISTINE; BRAF PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAF GENE; BRAIN CYST; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DESMOPLASTIC NON INFANTILE ASTROCYTOMA; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MITOSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STAINING; TUMOR CELL; VOMITING; ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; GENETICS; MUTATION; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUTATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84919464525     PISSN: 14337398     EISSN: 1861387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10014-014-0179-z     Document Type: Article

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