Case 16-2003: A 58-year-old woman with left-sided weakness and a right frontal brain mass

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 2125-2132

  Friedlander, Robert M ^a,c   Gonzalez, R Gilberto ^b,c   Afridi, Nadeem A ^b,c   Pfannl, Rolf ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; SULFONAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUSITIS; SOMNOLENCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DENTAL SURGERY; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HAEMOPHILUS; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARESIS; PATHOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI GROUP;

EID: 0038284635     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030011     Document Type: Article

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