Sarcoid tumour: Continuing diagnostic problems in the MRI era

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 510-512

  Larner, A J ^a,b   Ball, J A ^a,b   Howard, R S ^b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GLIOMA; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SEIZURE;

EID: 0033043259     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.66.4.510     Document Type: Article

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