Brain abscess as the first clinical manifestation of multiple pulmonary arteriovenous malformations in a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Rendu-Osler-Weber disease)

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-44

  Tabakow, Paweł ^a   Jarmundowicz, Włodzimierz ^a   Czapiga, Bogdan ^a   Czapiga, Elzbieta ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brain abscess; Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia; Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula; Rendu Osler Weber disease

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFTRIAXONE;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASPIRATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; STROKE;

EID: 17344369138     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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