The spread of an ependymoma from the brain to the lungs
| Autor: | H.Edward MacMahon, Moctezuma S. Urista |
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| Rok vydání: | 1964 |
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Ependymoma
Lymphatic metastasis Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Lung Neoplasms Ependymal Cell Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment Tumor cells medicine Humans Neoplasm Metastasis Child Craniotomy Brain Neoplasms business.industry Brain General Medicine medicine.disease Lymphatic Metastasis Surgery Lymph business |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Surgery. 107:765-768 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9610 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0002-9610(64)90309-5 |
| Popis: | A case of an ependymal cell tumor of the brain with distal metastases into the lungs and regional lymph nodes is reported. Tumor cells were demonstrated invading the vascular sinuses of the dura. As in each of the other five cases of ependymal cell tumors, quoted in the literature, that had metastasized to other parts of the body, there was a history in this child of multiple operations. |
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