A 30-year-old man with a generalized tonic-clonic seizure and a left temporal-lobe mass

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 335, Issue 25, 1996, Pages 1906-1914

  Recht, L D ^a   Looe, D N ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TUBERCULOSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 10544225384     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199612193352508     Document Type: Article

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