Fatal glioblastoma multiforme in a patient with neurofibromatosis type I: the dilemma of systematic medical follow-up.

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Published in Childs Nerv Syst on August 29, 2006

Authors

Felix Distelmaier1, Raimund Fahsold, Guido Reifenberger, Martina Messing-Juenger, Jörg Schaper, Dominik T Schneider, Ulrich Göbel, Ertan Mayatepek, Thorsten Rosenbaum

Author Affiliations

1: Department of General Pediatrics, University Children's Hospital, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. distelmaier@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

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