Intracranial tuberculoma mimicking metastasis from renal tumor

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 475-478

  Özveren, Faik ^a   Çetin, Hasan ^a   Güner, Alev ^a   Kandemir, Baran ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Intracranial tuberculoma; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PHENYTOIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TUMOR; SEIZURE; TUBERCULOMA;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 0030762455     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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