Idiopathic granulomatous meningoencephalitis presenting as an intracranial tumor

Pathology International

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1084-1088

  Amatya, Vishwa Jeet ^a   Takeshima, Yukio ^a   Sugiyama, Kazuhiko ^a   Yokozaki, Hiroshi ^a   Inai, Kouki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibroblastic proliferation; Granulomatous lesion; Meninges

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGES; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS;

EID: 0033497612     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.1999.00981.x     Document Type: Article

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