Diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis associated with multifocal CNS infarcts

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 356-362

  Singh, Meenakshi ^a   Corboy, John R ^a   Stears, John C ^a   Kleinschmidt Demasters, B K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Infarcts; Leptomeningeal gliomatosis; Meninges; Stroke; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOSIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEPTOMENINX; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; SUBEPENDYMOMA; VOMITING;

EID: 0032191779     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(97)00371-6     Document Type: Article

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