Atypical medulloblastoma: A case series
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Atypical medulloblastoma: A case series
Medulloblastoma is common in children as a tumor of midline posterior fossa, which arises from vermis and appears as a homogenously enhancing hyperdense mass on computed tomography scan and is associated with the clinical picture of posterior fossa syndrome. This unique clinic-radiological pattern in considered "typical" medulloblastoma, but medulloblastomas does not follow the typical clinic-r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Journal of Neurosurgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1793-5482
DOI: 10.4103/1793-5482.131077