Ring-enhanced malignant meningioma mimicking a brain metastasis from a renal cell carcinoma

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-82

  Yashi, Masahiro ^a,b   Sasaki, Masahiro ^a   Ono, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a Ohmori Hospital   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Meningioma; Renal cell carcinoma; Ring enhancement

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIURESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENINGIOMA; NEPHRECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; NEPHRECTOMY; PARIETAL LOBE; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037260442     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067694     Document Type: Article

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