Neuro-Behçet's disease manifesting as a neoplasm-like lesion: Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 406-409

  Imoto, Hirochika ^a   Nishizaki, Takafumi ^a   Nogami, Kenichiro ^a   Sakamoto, Kenichi ^a   Nomura, Sadahiro ^a   Akimura, Tatsuo ^a   Matsunaga, Tokio ^a   Suzuki, Michiyasu ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuro Beh et's disease; Steroid pulse therapy

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; STEROID;

ADULT; APHTHOUS ULCER; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CELL INVASION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DYSARTHRIA; GENITAL ULCER; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; NEURO BEHCET DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RASH; REMISSION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STEROID THERAPY; WHITE MATTER;

BEHCET SYNDROME; BIOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036739555     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.42.406     Document Type: Article

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