Posterior fossa tumors in children: developmental anatomy and diagnostic imaging

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1661-1676

  Raybaud, Charles ^a   Ramaswamy, Vijay ^a   Taylor, Michael D ^a   Laughlin, Suzanne ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brainstem glioma; DIPG; Ependymoma; Medulloblastoma; MR imaging; Posterior fossa tumors

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOMA; GRAY MATTER; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PONTINE TUMOR; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PREPONTINE CISTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TOPOGRAPHY; CHILD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; POSTERIOR FOSSA;

CHILD; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA;

EID: 84941253627     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-015-2834-z     Document Type: Review

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