Small cortical infarcts mimicking metastatic tumors

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 333-338

  Okamoto, Kouichirou ^a   Ito, Jusuke ^b   Furusawa, Tetsuya ^a   Sakai, Kunio ^a   Watanabe, Masato ^c   Tokiguchi, Susumu ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kuwana Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasms; Cerebral infarction; Computed tomography (CT); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Metastatic brain tumors

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARRHYTHMIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031662533     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(98)00025-4     Document Type: Article

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