Hemicerebellitis mimicking a tumour on MRI

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 122-125

  Jabbour, Pascal ^a,b   Samaha, Elie ^a   Abi Lahoud, Georges ^a   Koussa, Salam ^a   Abadjian, Gerard ^a   Nohra, Georges ^a   Rizk, Tony ^a   Moussa, Ronald ^a   Okais, Nabil ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Duroplasty; Hemicerebellitis; Infection; Leptomeningitis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Tumour

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CRANIECTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SOMNOLENCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; ARACHNOIDITIS; BRAIN TUMOR; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ARACHNOIDITIS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 0038520162     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0709-6     Document Type: Article

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