Diffuse Cerebrospinal Gliomatosis
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Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis.
Dr. André Leite Gonçalves – Division of Child Neurology / Departamento de Neurologia e Neurocirurgia Rua Botucatu 720 – 04023-900 São Paulo SP Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Glioma arising primarily from the leptomeninges is extremely rare and often diagnosed only in postmortem examination. It is thought to derive from heterotopic nests of neuroglial tissue within the leptomeninges, w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurologia medico-chirurgica
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0470-8105,1349-8029
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.31.1023