Metastatic lung cancer in the cerebellopontine angles mimicking bilateral acoustic neuroma

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 184-186

  Hariharan, Subramanian ^a   Zhu, Jianhua ^a   Nadkarni, Mangala A ^a   Donahue, John E ^b  

^a New Jersey Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Brain tumor; Cerebellopontine angle; Hearing loss; Metastasis; Neurofibromatosis 2

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BALANCE DISORDER; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

EID: 14744276196     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2004.03.028     Document Type: Article

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