High-grade glioma mimicking acute viral encephalitis - Three case reports

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 890, 1999, Pages 728-730

  Rees, J H ^a   Howard, R S ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Encephalopathy; Glioma; Viral encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; FEMALE; FEVER; GLIOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032760295     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.75.890.727     Document Type: Article

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