Intracranial cavernomas: Analysis of 37 cases and literature review

Neurology India

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 439-442

  Hakan, Kayali ^a   Sait, Sirin ^a   Serdar, Kahraman ^a   Kaan, Oysul ^a   Ilker, Solmaz ^a   Erdener, Timurkaynak ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cavernoma; Cerebral; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLEEDING; CAVERNOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAMARTOMA; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SPEECH DISORDER; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SYMPTOM; TREMOR; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 12144282742     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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