Giant cerebellar tuberculoma mimicking a malignant tumour

Neuroradiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 136-139

  Poonnoose, S I ^a   Singh, S ^a   Rajshekhar, V ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Angiography; Arteritis; Intracranial tuberculoma; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREMOR; TUBERCULOMA;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BIOPSY; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 1642346941     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-003-1148-0     Document Type: Article

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