Clinicopathological review: Tumefactive demyelination in a 12-year-old girl

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1051-1056

  Anderson, Richard C E ^a,d   Connolly, E Sander ^b   Komotar, Ricardo J ^b   Mack, William J ^b   McKhann, Guy M ^b   Van Orman, Colin B ^c   Hedlund, Gary ^c   Proctor, Kerry A S ^c   Townsend, Jeannette J ^c   Walker, Marion L ^a  

^a PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; Children; Multiple sclerosis; Myelinoclastic diffuse sclerosis; Pediatrics; Schilder's disease; Tumefactive demyelination

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHILDER DISEASE;

ADULT; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 20944445426     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000158194.51833.64     Document Type: Review

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