Sarcoidosis presenting as a central nervous system mass lesion

Chest

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 518-521

  Veres, Liliana ^a   Utz, James P ^b   Houser, Otis W ^b  

^a Clinic of Pulmonary Disease   (Romania)

^b MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

intracranial mass lesion; neurosarcoidosis; sarcoidosis; tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 0031028934     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.111.2.518     Document Type: Article

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