Cerebellopontine Angle Meningioma Causing Asymptomatic Syringomyelia: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 624-626

  Anegawa, Shigetaka ^a   Hayashi, Takashi ^a   Torigoe, Ryuichiro ^a   Iwaisako, Kosuke ^a   Higashioka, Hiroaki ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

brain tumor; meningioma; posterior fossa; syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; SYRINGOMYELIA; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; SYRINGOMYELIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030768185     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.37.624     Document Type: Article

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