Cerebellar Abscess Associated with Pulmonary Arteriovenous Fistula and Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 575-579

  Ogino, Masahiro ^a,b   Inoue, Hiroshi ^d   Harada, Shun ichi ^b   Horinouchi, Hirohisa ^c   Nakamura, Tsuneo ^b  

^a Departments of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

cerebellar abscess; hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Rendu Osler Weber disease); pulmonary arteriovenous fistula

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; EPISTAXIS; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; MALE; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BRAIN ABSCESS; CEREBELLUM; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; TELANGIECTASIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TONGUE;

EID: 0029821279     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.575     Document Type: Article

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