Malignant intracranial solitary fibrous tumour with four recurrences over a 30-year period

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 696-701

  Pizem, J ^a   Matos, B ^b   Popovic, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALIGNANT INTRACRANIAL SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR; MESENCHYMOMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, FIBROUS TISSUE; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 9444227614     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2004.00613.x     Document Type: Article

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