Metastatic choriocarcinoma presenting as multiple intracerebral haemorrhages: The role of imaging in the elucidation of the pathology

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 939-941

  Kidd, D ^a   Plant, G T ^a   Scaravilli, F ^b   McCartney, A C E ^a   Stanford, M ^a   Graham, E M ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHORIOCARCINOMA; FATALITY; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TERATOMA; TESTIS TUMOR;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032246764     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.65.6.939     Document Type: Article

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