A case report of Lhermitte-Duclos disease with systematic AVMs

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 251-255

  Okunaga, Tomohiro ^a,b   Takahata, Hideaki ^a   Nakamura, Minoru ^a   Iwasaki, Keisuke ^a  

^a Sasebo Shiritsu Sogo Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malfomation (AVM); Cowden disease; Lhermitte Duclos disease; Parallel linear striation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; COWDEN SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LHERMITTE DUCLOS DISEASE; LIMB; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HAMARTOMA SYNDROME, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037365526     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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