Chronological changes in brain MRI, SPECT, and EEG in neurosarcoidosis with stroke-like episodes

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 629-633

  Matsumoto, Kazunori ^a   Awata, Shuichi ^a   Matsuoka, Hiroo ^a   Nakamura, Shozo ^a   Sato, Mitsumoto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

EEG; MRI; Neurosarcoidosis; SPECT; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPHASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SARCOIDOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE;

EID: 0032430620     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1998.tb02711.x     Document Type: Article

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